Example sentences of "than the single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 3 | The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations for 1904 lists ‘ Stretford Bridge Junction Station ’ , suggesting something rather more grand than the single platform , without even a name board , that represented the sole facility for passengers here . |
| 4 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 5 | It should be noted that these drag coefficients are for Clios with door mirror on both sides — rather than the single door mirror used by certain other companies to produce flattering windtunnel figures . |
| 6 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 7 | It would be easy to climb ; easier than the single rope that had got her here . |
| 8 | For example , a family of four occupying a semi-detached house may consume more local services than the single occupier next door , but would still pay the same rates . |
| 9 | Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size . |
| 10 | As the restrictions arise in a two-equation model ( rather than the single equation we considered before ) , we now require a method of summarizing the variation in both equation errors so that we can compare an unrestricted with a restricted model . |
| 11 | Just as small groups of documents are often far more useful to the history teacher than the single source , so artefacts often yield their greatest potential when grouped together . |