Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands .
2 The liquidity squeeze ( predicted to affect only 10 per cent of the population directly ) immediately limited withdrawals from interest-bearing money-market accounts ( estimated to total $70,000 million ) to 20 per cent and those from private savings and current accounts to no more than approximately $1,000 .
3 ‘ Public relations at its best is much more than just media relations , ’ she added .
4 ‘ In any case , Lucy happens to be someone who is more than just staff — as you put it .
5 But — ‘ more than just staff ’ , he 'd said , the memory of the words causing her to beam with pleasure .
6 A heated propagator will maintain a higher temperature than the ambient air , but do not expect it to achieve a lift of more than about 10°C ( ie , if you wish to maintain 21°C/70°F , the greenhouse should be heated to 10°C/50°F ) .
7 In contrast , while few were quite as poor as Whitwell at a mere 22s. — not to mention the virtually notional 4s. produced by Buscot in Berkshire — a considerable number yielded no more than about £5 a year .
8 However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long .
9 Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted .
10 The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period .
11 On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales .
12 They are no more than about 20% efficient .
13 Looking ahead , the price by the year 2000 was expected to be no more than about $50 per tonne .
14 The stain can detect the presence of Mg-calcite containing more than about 3% MgCO 3 .
15 Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun .
16 For a good display , plant them about 100mm ( 4in ) deep , and no more than about 300mm ( 12in ) apart ; and for a more intense show , no more than 150mm ( 6in ) apart — the closer the better , but not touching .
17 More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb .
18 As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship .
19 Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said .
20 As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship .
21 Unless the wind is more than about 45° to the direction of take-off , a strong cross wind seldom creates problems .
22 A cross-trainer ( multi-purpose ) shoe will be your best buy , according to a survey carried out by the Consumers ' Association , and as long as your feet are well supported and cushioned you should n't pay more than around £40 .
23 For this reason , the band intensity should be considered as a good approximation of relative occupancy as long as the accumulative mole fraction of blocked transcripts is less than approximately 50% , otherwise sites further downstream are underestimated ( 10 ) .
24 Only when the angle of impact is less than about 20° above the surface is the direction of the body preserved , as an elongation of the crater in the impact direction .
25 Ground with less than about 50% cover is called fellfield ; below about 20% fellfield becomes polar desert .
26 It is probably fair to say that you can not really hope to run an adequate national TV campaign in the UK for less than about £750000 ; or a national poster campaign for less than £250000 .
27 The important thing to bear in mind is that the walls are retaining ones and anything longer than about 2.5m will either need a pier in the centre to strengthen it , or for large pits , it may be better to build in 225m hollow concrete blocks : they 're heavy , and very unloved by the professionals , who are n't expected to lay many per hour .
28 At latitudes greater than about 40° the banding is less clear , and in the polar regions it is replaced by smaller-scale cellular features .
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