Example sentences of "[det] than [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | His magic , the magic of uncovering a man who had trod the land that I now trod , who died and was laid in the chalk 3,000 years ago , had been little more than pages in a notebook : another find in the ceaseless archaeological round . |
| 3 | Is it fair that some people earn much more than others in a market economy ? |
| 4 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 5 | Mr Wise 's Mill continued to make cloth for some time , although it is not clear whether the firm of Ellis and Apperly , who were later recorded there , were more than tenants for a while . |
| 6 | Religions as sociological entities are not meant to be more than stepping-stones to an appreciation of the profound Mystery at the heart of reality . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They constitute no more than pointers towards an agenda for more detailed , empirical research . |
| 10 | Networks are merely an enabling technology , and the applications that run on them little more than means to an end : information . |
| 11 | But there are four reasons why these years should not be used as anything more than points on a continuum . |
| 12 | 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 . |