Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia .
2 So it 's not a progression all in one way but I have to say that even by the standards of the Lloyd George era , the battle by memoir which we now see for considerable sums of money has become more than a cottage industry , it 's a production line industry .
3 LOVE has proved stronger than a man 's desire to change sex .
4 since last March in the number of patients having to wait more than a year ?
5 Newcastle North MP Doug Henderson has written to city health chiefs , highlighting cases in which people are having to wait more than a year .
6 EYE patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed .
7 MORE eye patients at Darlington Memorial Hospital are having to wait more than a year for an appointment with a specialist , it has been claimed .
8 The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu .
9 He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep .
10 Although this represents a greater increase ( £7 ) than in the other categories , it seems only fair that two single adults should not have to pay more than a family .
11 For instance , a concert attracting 70,000 at Wembley would have to pay more than a gig at the sock and Warthog in the High street .
12 When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then .
13 Oxygen travels by means of billions of collisions of gas particles , a process that would be too slow if the molecules had to travel more than a fraction of an inch .
14 What possible reasons and motives could the Patrick Meehan Committee , consisting of a Queen 's Counsel , an MP , four solicitors and myself , have had other than a belief in Meehan 's innocence and a wish therefore to clear his name ?
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