Example sentences of "never [det] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 He liked to boast that , in central London , he was never more than a couple of hundred yards from some club , institution or association of which he was a member and which could provide , at the very least , a roof in a rainstorm .
2 Ulster was never more than a facet of it .
3 The ability of the politician to provide patronage , of whatever nature , was never more than a tool of management , and however useful it might be to the man who could supply it , patronage in itself did not remove the need for active and continuous management of the voters included within the interest .
4 He was never more than the creature of Mr Andreotti 's key fixer , Vittorio ‘ The Shark ’ Sbardella .
5 Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen .
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