Example sentences of "than a single [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course . |
| 2 | However , the cost is a disadvantage as the full party usually costs a third more than a single hour . |
| 3 | Most of his work is now done to commission , and deals with world issues such as the Arms Race and famines , subjects which Kennard feels can only be addressed by using ‘ more than a single click of the camera ’ . |
| 4 | Among the assaults on males , it was only the two acquittal cases where the media coverage lasted more than a single day . |
| 5 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 6 | In Bali , where cockfighting is also a controlled ritual , the cocks have two spurs with honed edges , rather than a single spur with a sharpened point , so the battles differ in style and technique , according to the aficionados , rather as swordsmanship differs depending on whether a cutlass or a rapier is used . |
| 7 | The completed report cards were then passed on to the SCC for discussion , after which the details would be forwarded to either the association of SCCs ( covering a wider area than a single school ) , the ASEA , or to some other agency , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , the Metropolitan Society for Befriending Young Servants or the Recreational Evening Schools Association . |
| 8 | And when Kennedy was shot , the ‘ psycho ’ Hoover botched the FBI investigation personally , ignoring evidence that there might have been more than a single gunman involved , sending agents to question the background of the Warren Commission 's staff , punishing his own agents for failing to spot Oswald 's violent nature . |
| 9 | Double glazing gives a higher degree of security than a single pane of glass , but is of course more expensive . |
| 10 | The book read as though it were a collection of notes rather than a single document . |
| 11 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 12 | he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking . |
| 13 | Pain in man requires the presence of distributed neuronal circuits rather than a single locus . |
| 14 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 15 | There is profound and deep argument of course that that is no more representative or true of democracy than a single member constituency . |
| 16 | Some of the failures of the model occurred in cases where the input was actually consistent with two parses , either a longer spanning word rather than a single word ( as in party ) or a different parse into two words , as in part rust for par trust . |
| 17 | This discovery , that a combination can be stronger than a single individual , or a couple , marked a major step in humanity 's development as a species , but carried with it restrictions over sexual activity , because this leads to two people aiming to be independent from everyone else . |
| 18 | Spaces with more than two dimensions require more than a single parameter to describe the Gaussian curvature at a given point . |
| 19 | In fact a computer manufacturer normally designs a number of compatible models rather than a single computer , and these cover a range of speeds , capacities , and costs . |
| 20 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 21 | The channel was not a broad one , no more than a single kilometre , but conditions could be rough ; they could be dangerous . |
| 22 | In crystallography , each lattice point can accommodate more than a single atom . |
| 23 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 24 | Legrand 's view of the transformation of the Earth science model in the twentieth century is self-confessedly based on the view of Laudan , that research is guided by a number of competing ‘ research traditions ’ , rather than a single paradigm . |
| 25 | Persons of inferior degree rarely owned more than a single parcel , irrespective of whether they lived on it themselves or let it to a tenant . |
| 26 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 27 | In the great tit , then , males sing to keep intruders out of their territories , and a repertory of songs is a more effective deterrent than a single song . |
| 28 | Power Launcher is typical of an hDC product , in that it is a collection of utilities and programs rather than a single application . |
| 29 | A realistic scientific theory will consist of a complex of universal statements rather than a single statement like ‘ All swans are white ’ . |
| 30 | Røst is actually a small group of islets rather than a single island , and a haven for birds in the spring . |