Example sentences of "than [adj] [noun pl] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 2 | More than 500 jobs at the HSE have gone since 1980 . |
| 3 | There are more than 550 exhibitors at the show , one of the South Coast 's major crowd-pullers and the biggest event of its kind in the world . |
| 4 | There are more than 550 exhibitors at the show , one of the South Coast 's major crowd-pullers and the biggest event of its kind in the world . |
| 5 | Iraq was among more than 30 observers at the conference which was expected to last approximately 10 weeks . |
| 6 | All she knew was that she was cold and hungry and thirsty , that she had not slept for more than few minutes at a time and that all her thoughts were with Tristram . |
| 7 | Sarah said that the Carmen Curls were quick and effective to use , ‘ although I would prefer to use more than 12 rollers at a time ’ . |
| 8 | That is also when you hear stories of doubting runners who have not covered more than 12 miles at a time in training suddenly attempting a 20-miler four days before the actual marathon , just to see if they can get that far ! |
| 9 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |
| 10 | More than 100 delegates at the Association of Children 's Reporters annual study conference at Peebles also heard Prof Chris Turner of Stirling University 's Department of Applied Social Science call for a fresh look at emergency protection for children , not necessarily because the system had worked unsatisfactorily in Scotland . |
| 11 | progressed more than six months at the date of travel . |
| 12 | Classic FM , a consortium led by GWR Group , a local radio-station owner , plans to offer ‘ classical music in a pop format , ie , no more than 45 minutes at a time ’ . |
| 13 | Waugh spent three seasons at Chelmsford , from 1988 to 90 and , in his final year , scored more than 2,000 runs at an average of more than 77 . |
| 14 | ATHLETICS : Steve Cram and Linford Christie were among more than 2,000 mourners at the funeral of Great Britain team manager Les Jones near Portadown , County Armagh , yesterday . |
| 15 | He knew the details of ident laws and rationing for every country in Europe , he had mastered Dutch and French , and he still could not get a pipe to burn for more than three minutes at a stretch . |
| 16 | You have specified more than 301 mappings at the MAP USERNAME keyword in the RDBI configuration file . |
| 17 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 18 | For this report we excluded patients who had disease states that placed limitations on the act of defecation such as hypotonia , cerebral palsy , and severe mental retardation and patients who were less than 6 years at the time of follow up , because our intend was to evaluate outcome in school age children . |
| 19 | How can I get them doing any more interesting work if they ca n't concentrate for more than ten minutes at a time ? |
| 20 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 21 | Close in to no more than twenty-five feet and fire no more than five rounds at a time . |
| 22 | ‘ The PDF ( Panamanian Defence Forces ) as an institution is rotten to the core , ’ argued Mr Alan Sabrosky , professor of international studies at Rhodes College in Memphis , who taught for more than five years at the Army War College . |
| 23 | Freezers and immersion heaters will be switched off for no more than 15 minutes at a time during peak-load periods . |
| 24 | In Russia the posol'skii prikaz , which employed fewer than twenty clerks at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had almost twice as many by 1701 : it also had a remarkably large number of interpreters and translators . |
| 25 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 26 | They have more than twenty portraitists at the moment , including Jeffery Courtney , Peter Greenham , Carel Weight and John Whittall . |
| 27 | If you want a mortgage over 25 years and the lender 's minimum lease remaining term is 40 years , you can not buy a property with a lease less than 65 years at the outset . |
| 28 | And , in the Franks Report on ministerial handling of the conflict , we have an archive which not only shortens dramatically the interval before the normal release of classified information but goes considerably further than any disclosures at the end of the statutory thirty years in the amount of intelligence material displayed . |
| 29 | The Communist Party still had less than 6,000 members at the end of 1934 but the balance within the Left was beginning to move towards it and away from the disintegrating ILP . |
| 30 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |