Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] than a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judicial decisions gradually shifted vicarages from the second category to the first ; before the end of Edward 's reign , royal judges had deemed more than a score of advowsons of perpetual vicarages to be lay fee . |
| 2 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 3 | Many have seen more than a hint of Greek architecture about the Baroque façade . |
| 4 | Dr Williamson , a consultant from Southampton , is to head the new unit , for which South Durham people have already given more than a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 5 | Thus this demanding people are reminded of the demands made of them , and given more than a hint of how terrible the consequences will be , if those demands are not met . |
| 6 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 7 | By the time the last display is over on Sunday the RAF hope to have raised more than a quarter of a million pounds for their benevolent fund . |
| 8 | However , as discussed in Chapter 3 , this concept has become more than a description of a right accruing to all tenants . |
| 9 | ‘ Shakespeare ’ has become more than a collection of Renaissance texts and is now a site for wider cultural explorations and controversies . |
| 10 | Compelled less than a whiff of ghostly oxygen |
| 11 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 12 | ‘ They have behaved worse than a horde of Hottentots . |
| 13 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 14 | Totalling fewer than twenty and confined to a minority of townships , they can hardly have represented more than a fraction of the real number of demises , most of which were likely to have been annual tenancies anyway . |
| 15 | Where generalization is concerned processes common to generalizing in a variety of contexts are identified rather than a list of topics . |
| 16 | ‘ It must have been thrown more than a quarter of a mile . |
| 17 | Right now it would have taken more than a memory of someone else 's predictions to have any effect on the blazing anger stirring in her at the prospect of sweaty workmen and a ruined holiday . |
| 18 | In 1984 , foresters found that 20 per cent of the Norway spruce in West Germany 's forests had lost more than a quarter of their needles . |
| 19 | Over 80 per cent of oaks have lost more than a quarter of normal crown density , with attacks from winter moths identified as the main cause . |
| 20 | They had never drunk more than a couple of beers each , never raised their voices , and always complimented Trent on the fish he grilled each evening . |