Example sentences of "there [be] [adv] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 2 | ‘ And there were never more than a few dozen ringleaders , ’ Bob Mather , a local butcher , tells me . |
| 3 | There is ostensibly more than a passing similarity between Gedge and another famed Mancunian bedroom termite , Morrissey . |
| 4 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 5 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |
| 6 | There was always more than a hint , of course , that the real source of anxiety was that the bicycle might be enlarging the freedom of women in undesirable directions , because both in terms of class and sex the bicycle was a great leveller . |
| 7 | The contrast with chemistry came up frequently , and there was often more than a hint of reductionism in the comparison : |
| 8 | When Ellie went scarlet , because there was definitely more than a grain of truth in that statement , she laughed , not unkindly . |