Example sentences of "was [adv] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was saying that the proportion of advertising expenditure given was for that in the two lowest tar groups , which was rather less than the proportion of total sales . |
| 2 | And that was rather less than the effect these fashion fancies had on Third World local economies . |
| 3 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 4 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 5 | It was perhaps more than the chill air that flushed the parson 's cheeks as he bent to fasten his skates . |
| 6 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 7 | And her beauty was already more than a promise . |
| 8 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 9 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 10 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 11 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 12 | His face was not more than a foot away from hers and his dark brown eyes were smiling into hers . |
| 13 | Lord Jauncey stated that the issue was whether clause 3 amounted to an unlawful and invalid fetter on TBL 's statutory power to increase its share capital or whether it was not more than an agreement between shareholders about their manner of voting in a given situation . |
| 14 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 15 | One may doubt whether this was ever more than a schoolboy game . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon . |
| 18 | It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately . |
| 19 | The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability . |
| 20 | Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel . |
| 21 | Their pay , expressed in pence per 1000 ens , varied , but was still less than a man 's . |
| 22 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 23 | She was clearly more than a shop assistant . |
| 24 | The plants were moved to chilling temperatures for a fairly short time , and any resulting decline in growth was probably less than the variation . |
| 25 | In fact it was slightly less than a minute . |
| 26 | A cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor , indomethacin , also significantly decreased the chemiluminescence signal but the magnitude ( -34% ) was substantially less than the effects of either azide or catalase ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 27 | When capital allowances were available for expenditure on plant and equipment and industrial buildings , the cost of a lease was often less than the cost of financing debt to acquire the asset , because the lessor was able to utilize the tax benefits more effectively than the lessor . |
| 28 | The contrast with chemistry came up frequently , and there was often more than a hint of reductionism in the comparison : |
| 29 | And people in arrears who had bought at the top of the market could n't sell as their outstanding loan was often more than the value of their property . |
| 30 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |