Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Also in relation to the United States , Brody ( 1981 ) offers evidence from a three-generation study of women that the youngest generation felt more strongly than the other two about ‘ grandfilial responsibility ’ , three-quarters of them saying that older people should expect help from their grandchildren , whereas less than a quarter of the oldest generation took this view . |
| 3 | After less than a half-hour of sitting alone he would grow restless , scatter his books untidily about the table and disappear outside . |
| 4 | As midnight struck on vesting day , Lord Citrine , after more than a year of planning , was waiting up excitedly with Sir Henry Self in the flat above their new London headquarters in a converted block of flats in Great Portland Street . |
| 5 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
| 6 | AFTER more than a decade of rising profits , Highland Distilleries saw its growth record interrupted in the six months to February . |
| 7 | After more than a decade of research ( see , for instance , Chem . |
| 8 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 9 | Even the fall of the Khmer Rouge leader , Pol Pot , provided little relief , as more than a decade of civil war and chaos ensued . |