Example sentences of "[det] than a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |
| 3 | After more than a century of relative obscurity , Gordon 's A Treatise on the Epidemic Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen ( 1795 ) was recognized for what it is , a masterpiece of early epidemiology based on astute clinical observation and written with exceptional clarity . |
| 4 | An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands . |
| 5 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 6 | No more than a couple of good songs and much sub-Jagger ligging and leering with the Rats ; Do They Know It 's Christmas ? ; a mediocre first solo album ; and there the list peters out . |
| 7 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 8 | This view has long been linked with those who have argued that the company should not be specially regulated by the state since it owed its existence to nothing more than a contract between individual property owners . |
| 9 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 10 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |
| 11 | So , in a paper written to commemorate the life and work of Danny Lehrman , whose critical interest in ethology and psychiatry had been considerable , I argued pessimistically ( Crook 1977 a ) that an understanding of the primate behaviour I had been reviewing ‘ provides no more than a kind of educational backcloth — a reference literature for university courses on human evolution and that it can not begin to touch upon the existential issues that are the central focus of living human relations . |
| 12 | What I do find difficult to swallow — we argued long about this — is some strange belief of his that the world is immaterial and that humanity ( if I have it correctly ) is no more than a kind of metaphysical construct projected by nature and relying on words rather than flesh for its continued existence . |
| 13 | Many candidates who start at the bottom skip grades on the way up , or , perhaps because of pressure of other work , take more than a year between adjoining grades . |
| 14 | Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously . |
| 15 | More than a quarter of French farms are smaller than five hectares and are concentrated in the poorer southern and western regions . |
| 16 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 17 | The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing . |
| 18 | The preliminary results , particularly in Teheran , indicate Iranians ' weariness with more than a decade of revolutionary turmoil and a desire to rebuild the economy following the eight-year war with Iraq . |
| 19 | We now have a unique chance to build on more than a decade of solid progress , bringing further benefits and new successes to a nation that is , at last , getting used to real achievement . |
| 20 | Even the fall of the Khmer Rouge leader , Pol Pot , provided little relief , as more than a decade of civil war and chaos ensued . |
| 21 | Bush rejected the campaign finance bill , the first such measure to have been approved by Congress in more than a decade of partisan dispute over the issue , on the grounds that it offered public subsidies to House and Senate candidates and because it did not eliminate donations from political action committees ( PACs ) . |
| 22 | Interestingly , the projected shortfall in the availability of skilled labour has done more for equal opportunity employment than more than a decade of educational programmes . |
| 23 | After more than a decade of Sikh terrorism in which 25,000 people have died , Punjab is peaceful again . |
| 24 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 25 | Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives . |
| 26 | In the United States and Canada the country station , with or without garden , was much more than a stopping-place for passing trains . |
| 27 | Overall , the reforms ( particularly the CSFs ) represented a further attempt to move away from the passive form of EC regional aid , whereby EC expenditure was simply added to nationally determined projects , and regional policy was therefore little more than a system of budgetary transfers . |
| 28 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
| 29 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 30 | The utilization of established or collaborationist governments , as in Thailand or the Philippines , was little more than a façade for Japanese rule . |