Example sentences of "[det] than a [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the northern fringe of the wood-pasture belt fewer than a quarter of the people of Blofield , East Flegg and Walsham hundreds in Norfolk had less than £2 , almost as many having £5 — £9 . |
| 2 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 3 | According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 4 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 5 | For all the criticisms which can be levelled against it , the work remains a successful attempt to make sense of the complicated relationship which existed between England and France over a period of more than a century at the end of the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
| 7 | Other nearby springs supplied Frogwell below the Town Hall and the conduit which ran from Springfield into the brewery for more than a century on the perhaps appropriate site of the new Health Centre . |
| 8 | This has always been strongest in the southern States , with their history of slavery and the implicit belief , well-established in the local culture , in black inferiority — a belief capitalized on for more than a century after the Civil War by the Democrats ( see below ) . |
| 9 | A bloody battle has been fought in the region … more than a century after the war ended . |
| 10 | These texts attributed to Phocylides and to Hecataeus of Miletus are at least two centuries later — with the difference that " Phocylides " covers a forgery , whereas " Hecataeus of Miletus " is a wrong attribution , little more than a slip of the pen . |
| 11 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 12 | But , as far as James was concerned , this was no more than a PRECONDITION for the abolition of slavery . |
| 13 | And the Kaiser did everything he could to ensure that his son should be no more than a figurehead in the army given under his command . |
| 14 | British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise . |
| 15 | The Maastricht Treaty represents more than a consolidation of the process of centralisation in the EEC . |
| 16 | Some local people also work close to the church , daily setting out their stalls of fruit , vegetables or fish in the narrow alleyways , the vicoli , which spread out from the tiny square , no more than a broadening of the road really , before the church . |
| 17 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 18 | In what sense do these mark a crossroads while the others are no more than a widening of the road ? |
| 19 | It is much more likely to be no more than a reflection of the fact that almost everything we know about Richard as Duke of Aquitaine comes from an English chronicler , Roger of Howden , and Roger only has information when he has access to the reports sent by Richard to his father , that is to say when Henry is in England . |
| 20 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
| 21 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 22 | The change to a community-based service … involves much more than a change to the pattern of service provision . |
| 23 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 24 | After the storms of bitterness , this really was a tremendous volte-face , but no more than a barometer of the changes within Nancy herself . |
| 25 | He had obtained the auctioneer 's catalogue only a day before the sale and the purported effect of the clause was to relieve the sellers from telling more than a part of the material facts , thereby obliging the buyer to check the remainder for himself . |
| 26 | Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 . |
| 27 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 28 | More than a year after the revolution , the euphoria has faded . |
| 29 | We must remember , however , that today 's uprating comes more than a year after the Conservative leadership coup and that there can be no excuse for the provisions . |
| 30 | More than a year after the publication of the Pastoral Instruction Aetatis Novae on the communications media , I once again invite all of you to reflect on the vision of the modern world which the instruction presented and on the practical implications of the situations it described . |