Example sentences of "[verb] [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 3 | The formula can be extended to a pop group , as in Lester 's Beatles films , or Boorman 's Catch Us If You Can ( 1965 ) centred on the Dave Clark Five , but it looks more than a little shaky when applied to a more complex , not to say maudlin , character like that written by Shelagh Delaney for Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles ( 1967 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 5 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 6 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 7 | No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) . |
| 8 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
| 10 | Admit you want more than a mere boy can offer . |
| 11 | Should n't worry you we alright , I want more than a c ake |
| 12 | Even so , in his mid-sixties and preparing to retire , he created more than a literary stir with the publication of a series of poems in vers libre on contemporary themes ( Fascism , war , pacifism ) which , in 1944 , were published in a volume entitled Y Dwymyn ( The Fever ) ( 2nd edn. 1972 ) . |
| 13 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 14 | A child born in Denmark will live an average of 75 years and has less than a one in 100 chance of dying before age one . ’ |
| 15 | Such a premature baby has less than a 10 per cent chance of survival and a healthy life because the lungs are not fully developed . |
| 16 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 17 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 18 | Although this research is expected , and intended , to have practical educational relevance , it is hoped to provide more than a descriptive analysis of classroom practice . |
| 19 | Clearly the whole point of the exchange , namely a request for specific information and an attempt to provide as much of that information as possible , is not directly expressed in ( 2 ) at all ; so the gap between what is literally said in ( 2 ) and what is conveyed in ( 3 ) is so substantial that we can not expect a semantic theory to provide more than a small part of an account of how we communicate using language . |
| 20 | This will leave a " flatter " drop which will magnify less than a spherical drop . |
| 21 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 22 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 23 | But he wants more than a few measly hundred — and I aim to see he does not get it ! ’ |
| 24 | In practice , of course , a large number of these relationships rarely involve more than a few people . |
| 25 | Strict separation was the order of the day , forcing some couples to leave notes in drainpipes and resort to all kinds of strategies if they wished to communicate more than a passing word . |
| 26 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 27 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 28 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 29 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 30 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |