Example sentences of "than [num] [noun] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than fifty years ago the German theologian Rudolf Bultmann , still the staple diet of theology undergraduates , declared in an essay entitled ‘ The Crisis of Belief ’ : |
| 2 | At Stade Roland Garros , the Centre Court temperature is rarely like to be less than 100 degrees F. The sunbaked concrete and clay cauldron is no place for the weak kneed or willed . |
| 3 | Since the main Which ? magazine appeared more than 35 years ago a whole new breed of special interest publications have been spawned including Holiday Which ? , |
| 4 | Less than 4½ months following the two successful Spitfire transfers , VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) and a number of her crew were lying on the bottom of the Pacific . |
| 5 | When New Yorkers first got word that war had started , those not glued to TV sets gravitated to Times Square , where little more than two weeks earlier a cheering crowd had watched the descent of a red , white and blue ball marking the dwindling seconds of 1990 . |
| 6 | More than 20 years ago a well-known ice-cream manufacturer in the North of England excited adverse comment by demanding that the churches should declare a fixed date for Easter . |