Example sentences of "[adj] than [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , well mine , she said would be further than sixty pound at the end , a hundred and twenty at the end of the quarter , but she said oh this time it 's gon na be about a hundred sixty so it 's crippling me living here ! |
| 2 | In the British population 70 year old men are on average about 4 cm shorter than 40 year old men , partly because of the general increase in adult height since the 1930s . |
| 3 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 4 | A mild night just about everywhere , with temperatures no lower than nine celsius , forty eight fahrenheit , with those fairly light winds tending to turn more south easterly . |
| 5 | Well , it was another cloudy , grey start to that day , but it WAS dry and mild , temperatures no lower than five celsius . |
| 6 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 7 | Yeah , that 's bigger than one point three though is n't it ? |
| 8 | The size of the type itself varies enormously , 12 point Bookman looks much bigger than 12 point times even though they both occupy the same amount of space vertically on the page . |
| 9 | A matter of murder-more than one murder , highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too . |
| 10 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |
| 11 | A jester , a tiny woman no taller than three foot , appeared , doing somersaults along the table whilst dodging the bowls and bits of food thrown at her . |
| 12 | Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables . |
| 13 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 14 | For example , in his national survey of household resources and standards of living , Townsend found that a higher proportion of older lone women than lone men had less than £100 worth of assets and fewer than six consumer durables . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that within the borough of Islington , which includes the Holloway travel-to-work area , fewer than 100 school leavers last year were able to find jobs and that , at the Holloway unemployment office , there is a gap between the 32 registered vacancies and the 11,600 people who are registered as unemployed ? |
| 16 | It is likely that a group of fewer than 100 boat people will be sent back just before the arrival in Hong Kong of the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , planned for mid-January . |
| 17 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 18 | By contrast , according to the British Franchise Association fewer than 10 p.c. of franchise operators go under . |
| 19 | Baggage and goods were handled on a sub-track level , and one of the advantages of the new arrangements was that no fewer than fifteen street level-crossings were eliminated . |
| 20 | Ender , 33 , is unlikely now to produce the kind of speed that helped her break no fewer than 27 world records during her distinguished career . |
| 21 | In the next forty years no fewer than 1,479 enclosure acts were passed , dealing with nearly 2½ million acres . |
| 22 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 23 | And although he wrote no fewer than twelve String Quartets between the ages of fourteen and nineteen , as well as a set of Variations for String Quartet Op. 93 , these two are Rheinberger 's only two mature works for a medium in which he obviously felt very much at home . |
| 24 | The supermarket giant has had no fewer than four scrip issues in this period and on each occasion the number of shares held has effectively doubled . |
| 25 | He is currently 114th , his reward for top-four finishes in the recent German and English Opens , and no fewer than 11 under-par rounds from four big tournaments during August . |
| 26 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 27 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 28 | Most Chief Education Officers say they come across fewer than one case a year , thus supporting the official line that it ‘ hardly ever happens ’ . |
| 29 | Despite the great increases in formal education since 1945 , fewer than one person in five was interested in the kind of reading matter offered by the qualities . |
| 30 | Fewer than one child in every hundred is taken into care , yet , in London alone , at least one in every three young homeless people has a background in care . |