Example sentences of "[adj] than [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly half of the commission 's 17 panels contained no women , for example , and fewer than half a dozen minorities participated in the exercise . |
| 2 | I have no later than half an hour ago contacted my office and there has been no official communication re any decision being made on the royal dockyard and the capacity none whatsoever . |
| 3 | But 100 years ago , I am sure than many an older mechanical engineer would not have cared to contemplate the day when robots would be able to manufacture engine components to much higher tolerances than could be achieved then . |
| 4 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 5 | These little glasses , which so closely resemble eyebaths , have become a fetish , and to suggest that a common cup might be shared ( after all it is communion ) is more than many a minister would dare . |
| 6 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 7 | ALESSANDRO FIORIO , of Italy , despite being plagued by overheating problems in his Lancia Delta Integrale , extended his lead to more than half a minute during the second stage of the San Remo rally yesterday . |
| 8 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 9 | His first Green novel , Stark , sold more than half a million copies . |
| 10 | That sign must also be no more than half a square metre in area and all signs should be removed within two weeks of a sale being completed . |
| 11 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 12 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 13 | It was a conquest which would be theirs for more than half a century . |
| 14 | SUCH of that European history which came to so terrible an ending in and around the battlefields of the Somme had its beginnings in the north Rhineland town of Aachen , Charlemagne 's capital , Aix-la-Chapelle ; because it was here , for more than half a millennium , that the Holy Roman Empire celebrated its mysteries . |
| 15 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 16 | Cambridge put up a tremendous fight and there was no more than half a length between the crews for 14 minutes . |
| 17 | POLICE are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on London for today 's marathon and the League Cup final . |
| 18 | Police are braced for a traffic nightmare today as more than half a million sports fans converge on the capital for this morning 's ADT London Marathon and the Rumbelows League Cup Final at Wembley . |
| 19 | This was all part of a romanticising process that has afflicted Pygmalion for more than half a century . |
| 20 | It was in defence of the presumed ‘ sovereignty ’ of this peculiar nation — a product of the Quai d'Orsay rather than the creation of any Arab national aspiration — that countless thousands were to die more than half a century later . |
| 21 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 22 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 23 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 24 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 25 | Libraries in the college sector usually have very small professional staff complements ( often just one or two , and only exceptionally more than half a dozen ) , which do not allow library management on a subject specialization basis . |
| 26 | From a slow start in the 1950s , and after a great deal of scepticism , as well as a great deal of research , triticale is now growing on more than half a million hectares , in the USSR , Europe , the United States and South America . |
| 27 | By 1970 there were more than half a million students at a now expanded network of higher education , and in 1980 the number exceeded a million for the first time , taking in roughly a quarter of the relevant age group . |
| 28 | He never ate more than half a meal , never had an appetite . |
| 29 | It is clear that Robert de Sigillo did not write all the royal writs himself , although there is no reason to believe that a twelfth-century English king needed a permanent staff of more than half a dozen clerks , sometimes perhaps even less . |
| 30 | More than half a sweaty hour touring the environs of the station , revealed there was n't space to park even a roller-skate , so I adopted a to-hell-with-it attitude and parked in a corner of the horseshoe — well out of everybody 's way . |