Example sentences of "[coord] [det] than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 2 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 3 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 4 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 5 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 6 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 7 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 8 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 9 | A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer . |
| 10 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |
| 11 | But more than a change of personalities was complicating the American assessment of the relationship with the British at this time . |