Example sentences of "be [det] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're more than due a holiday , ’ her mother at once declared . |
| 2 | Village clusters are fewer than on the mainland . |
| 3 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 4 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 5 | Similarly , there was an average swing to the Tories in those boroughs where poll tax demands were below government estimates or where household bills were likely to be less than under the rates . |
| 6 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |
| 7 | Any assessment on the beneficiaries to income tax can never be more than on the £65 grossed up . |
| 8 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
| 9 | Is he aware of the report by the Henley Centre for Forecasting , which states that , in the first nine months of this year , 12,359 small businesses failed in London and the south-east , which is more than in the whole of last year and shows an alarming and continuing increase in business failures in our capital city ? |
| 10 | In particular , since oscillation is avoided if the phase shift is less than at the frequency at which falls to unity , it follows that a negative-feedback amplifier involving just first-order networks is stable if the slope of the plot of versus is less than 12dB per octave as the condition is approached . |