Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 2 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 3 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 4 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 5 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 6 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 7 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 8 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 9 | It takes more than a shoestring to keep an essential component of the economy strong , say the Met , and other institutions concur . |
| 10 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 11 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |
| 12 | Zambia achieved political independence without a prolonged conflict , but in Zimbabwe it took more than a decade of military and political struggle to overthrow white minority rule . |
| 13 | It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work . |
| 14 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |
| 15 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 16 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 17 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 18 | ‘ Sn-snuggled … ? ’ she spluttered , but , when she thought about it — and with the memory so recent , it took less than a second — she had to concede that perhaps ‘ snuggled ’ was n't so very far off the mark . |
| 19 | This might have seemed odd , coming as it did less than a week after Franco 's bellicose public references to Gibraltar . |
| 20 | But advocates of renewable energy point out that the new budget still leaves the field far behind where it stood more than a decade ago , when President Jimmy Carter spent as much as $800 million a year on renewable research . |