Example sentences of "have [adj] than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 3 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 4 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 5 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 8 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 9 | So if you 've more than a mite of sense you 'll point your base somewheres else . |
| 10 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 11 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 12 | Much of James 's statement had more than a modicum of truth . |
| 13 | Their winner , an own goal from Nick Henry in the 13th minute , had more than a shade of good fortune about it . |
| 14 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 15 | These first three Muftis of the capital , as well as their immediate successors , never had more than a priority of rank over those of the provinces . " |
| 16 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 17 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |