Example sentences of "for [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman .
2 An emaciated rice cropper from the Red River delta who had been forced south like many others because typhoons had recently inundated the rice lands , he had worked in the rubber plantation for less than a month before succumbing to the fever .
3 If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you .
4 The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money .
5 There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ?
6 Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications .
7 The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car .
8 If not , should heads settle for less than the whole of their ideal or keep on pressing their colleagues ?
9 As the bulk of the material was culled from just three radio sessions , this proved that an album of quality could still be made for less than the cost of recording your average chart single .
10 Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension .
11 Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records .
12 The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes .
13 Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences .
14 I ca n't hang around with anyone , if I hang around with anyone that 's a smackhead for more than a couple of days , then it 's going to be tempting , so I 've got to keep meself away from them .
15 One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes .
16 For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew .
17 It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza .
18 Her breezy smile left little room for more than a grin of agreement .
19 The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave .
20 The second route was to give the library user direct access to those machine-readable bibliographic records from which card and computer output microform ( COM ) catalogues had been produced for more than a decade through shared centralized cataloguing .
21 Implicitly , they have accepted many of the criticisms made for more than a decade by Labour councils and civil libertarians : that a force which has dug itself in behind ramparts of elitist isolationism must begin to respond to demands of the public it serves and their political representatives .
22 In 1989 they accounted for more than a quarter of BR 's total charter-train revenue — and the trend is ever upwards .
23 At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile .
24 The SNP needs a swing of nearly 9 per cent but the polls show the Nationalists gaining ground in Scotland and Labour and the Liberals — who accounted for more than a quarter of the vote in Galloway last time — are likely to be squeezed .
25 One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time !
26 Schools and their children have suffered change after change for more than a quarter of a century , especially since the Tories came to power .
27 For more than a quarter of a million motorists , choosing a car can be an especially frustrating experience .
28 Runciman had sympathisers within the Federation in favour of a more liberal approach which , he believed , would bring a ready response from Wilson , but they were in a minority to those dominated by the formidable George A. and Cuthbert Laws , father and son , whose implacable anti-union line prevailed for more than a quarter of a century .
29 ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head .
30 For more than a quarter of a century historians have been using computers to help analyse voting behaviour in English parliamentary elections .
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