Example sentences of "[det] than [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most sporting methods do no more than cream off a proportion of the rabbit stock , but ferreting , to my mind , is the ultimate . |
| 2 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 3 | To men who lived on what they could pick up from articles and reviews , the ultimate weapon implied more than lack of a showcase : it implied starvation … |
| 4 | It also has applications in field archaeology where financial or time constraints preclude excavation of more than part of a site , and where it is therefore important that the excavated part yields as much information as possible . |
| 5 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |