Example sentences of "[det] than [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's much better at this than belly-dancing in the desert , covered in clay . |
| 2 | His career spanned 25 years ( 1832–1857 ) and he achieved lasting fame by scoring no fewer than 162 during a match played on ice in 1841 . |
| 3 | In fact , the British had hardly any ( often fewer than two to a battalion ) but their infantrymen had mastered rapid rifleshooting . |
| 4 | In early September 1666 , the old city of London was devastated by the Great Fire , which as well as destroying thousands of secular buildings left old St Paul 's with severe structural damage , and no fewer than eighty-seven of the capital 's parish churches gutted or in ruins . |
| 5 | When Ronald Reagan took office , no fewer than 20 of the research fellows at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) joined his administration . |
| 6 | Fewer than half of the district 's households that include a pensioner have a car . |
| 7 | On Barro Colorado Island , pollinator specificity occurs in fewer than half of the orchid species and host specificity of the bees is also rare . |
| 8 | The Campaign Group of MPs , to which he belongs , numbered fewer than 30 before the election and four Left-wingers , including Mr Dave Nellist , stood against official Labour candidates and lost their seats . |
| 9 | Very little information is available concerning the movement of ex-Company staff , who probably numbered fewer than those of the Corporation , but it is known that S.H . |
| 10 | As India 's leading political parties shift into gear for the forthcoming general election campaign , no fewer than three of the ex-Maharajah 's once-royal relatives are jostling for the right to contest the Bharatpur seat . |
| 11 | Now they would pay no more than that on a meal for two . ’ |
| 12 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 13 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 14 | He 's gon na drink more than that throughout the day . |
| 15 | A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom . |
| 16 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 17 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 18 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 19 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 20 | Under the emergency regulations , currently affecting more than two-thirds of the country and 50 per cent of the population , all constitutional guarantees contained in Articles 7 , 9 and 10 of the Constitution were suspended and the army was placed in full control of internal order . |
| 21 | Oceans cover more than two-thirds of the earth 's surface , and in places reach a depth of eleven kilometres . |
| 22 | To pursue that vision Mr Levin is giving up a lot : after Toshiba , ITOCHU and US West , Time Warner is left with just 63% of TWE , which produces more than two-thirds of the group 's cash flow . |
| 23 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 24 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 25 | Rather than follow their British and American counterparts , who fed a property frenzy with mezzanine debt , deep-discount bonds and other financial wheezes , Germany 's more prudent bankers have consistently refused to lend more than two-thirds of the value of a development project . |
| 26 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 27 | Never more than competent as a draughtsman himself , Kempe was adept at selecting and training young designers and craftsmen to carry out schemes under his direction . |
| 28 | The second half of the year witnessed a superficially arcane debate on vodka which touched on the whole question of government finances ( because more than one-third of the state 's revenue derived from its involvement in the vodka trade ) . |
| 29 | Senior scientists comprise more than one-third of the company and are dedicated to creating powerful advanced solutions in computer-aided molecular design . |
| 30 | It has been estimated that more than one-third of the land area of the United Kingdom is covered by these additional restraints . |