Example sentences of "than a [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 2 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 3 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 4 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 5 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |