Example sentences of "[det] than [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 2 | He 's much better at this than belly-dancing in the desert , covered in clay . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fewer than one-third of the outbursts lasted for as long as five minutes . |
| 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 | No fewer than 708 of the convicts ( 75 per cent ) had been aged 31 or over , and 573 ( 61 per cent ) had been illiterate . |
| 7 | Fewer than half of the undergraduates reported receiving reading lists from all or most of their lecturers . |
| 8 | Fewer than half of the district 's households that include a pensioner have a car . |
| 9 | On Barro Colorado Island , pollinator specificity occurs in fewer than half of the orchid species and host specificity of the bees is also rare . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I think it 's more than that for the seniors . |
| 14 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 15 | , is officially described as office cleaner , but became much more than that to the people who knew her during her 33 years with the company . |
| 16 | He 's gon na drink more than that throughout the day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | One important political ingredient giving shape to the results in the districts was the failure of the Democrats to contest more than two-thirds of the vacancies , compared with the Alliance 's presence in over 85% of wards in 1986 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For student committees a quorum would rarely be less than one-third nor more than two-thirds of the members entitled to attend . |
| 25 | Oceans cover more than two-thirds of the earth 's surface , and in places reach a depth of eleven kilometres . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 29 | Although this merger initially appeared as a shrewd means of transforming a minority government into a government which commanded more than two-thirds of the seats in the legislature , it also produced a considerable level of public disquiet over its legitimacy . |
| 30 | 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 . |