Example sentences of "not be [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away .
2 In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer .
3 Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear …
4 But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days .
5 who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story .
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