Example sentences of "be [det] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | However , a spring sowing of such seed will produce some plants , though the number will be fewer than from a summer sowing . |
| 4 | The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic . |
| 5 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |