Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so more than ever the ‘ voluntary ’ CAB finds itself carrying out what should be in effect a statutory task . |
| 2 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
| 3 | But the relations that developed were much more than simply instrumental ; when families did survive it was more than a product of what Stone called , for an earlier period , ‘ psychic numbing ’ . |
| 4 | Gina got nastier and nastier when she did n't have money ; she hit him much more than before . |
| 5 | Houses , particularly in Western society , confer upon their occupants much more than merely the roofs over their heads ; they involve status and an expression of place in society . |
| 6 | Their conditions of work bring people together more than ever before , in factories , offices and towns ; and yet at the same time these people are isolated from one another . |
| 7 | ( These people who have both the primary disease and the family disease are somewhat less than ingenuously referred to as " double winners " . ) |
| 8 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 9 | But — perhaps more than ever before — personal stresses within marriage and stress upon marriage mean that life will not always be blissful or even comfortable . |
| 10 | There , perhaps more than anywhere else , the hunger for tabloid trivia never seemed to satisfy the public . |
| 11 | She 'd gone to bed with Rune willingly , with both eyes wide open in a metaphorical sense , knowing his background and aware that , in the natural , uncomplicated atmosphere of Scandinavia , perhaps more than anywhere else in Europe there were fewer taboos regarding physical relationships between couples . |
| 12 | When these designs were published , it was remarked that ‘ the room as left by the builder before it is inhabited at all , is already more than half finished . ’ |
| 13 | Brown 's was already more than half full , but Bridget and Loretta were able to find a table in a relatively uncrowded corner where an old-fashioned ceiling fan was doing an effective job in keeping stuffiness at bay . |
| 14 | No system has been described in which positional signals have to be transmitted over more than about half a millimetre , or about 30–50 cells . |
| 15 | All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . " |
| 16 | Following the 86th OPEC Conference , Air Vice-Marshal Ginandjar Kartasasmita , the Indonesian Minister of Mines and Energy , commented on Nov. 30 that OPEC output in the first half of 1990 would probably be not less than about 22,500,000 bpd , and that the 22,086,000 bpd ceiling agreed for that period reflected a pragmatic approach which " assumed overproduction " . |
| 17 | And , finally , those extra , necessary words — grouped and coloured — somehow more than just a list of words ! |
| 18 | At the other end of the scientific spectrum , organic chemists were reluctant to extend their studies beyond compounds consisting of small molecules with not more than perhaps 50 or 100 atoms . |
| 19 | Except in 1953 , when a party of 67 was seen , not more than about 25 birds have been seen in any year since 1947 , and it is of interest that influxes have not occurred in recent severe winters . |
| 20 | A short length of aerial wire ( not more than about three metres ) may be necessary in order to receive signals at the high frequency end of the medium waveband . |
| 21 | This means that the total household cash contributions to every form of charity , of which social services are only a small part , was not more than about 5,000 million , or one fifth of the cost of the NHS . |
| 22 | " Not more than about six hundred a year , and that would n't worry him . |
| 23 | Not more than so many other things . |
| 24 | Their keen intellects and powerful personalities could spark off more than just brilliant ideas at times . |
| 25 | Cut off more than ever from the society of my peers , I fell back on my mother . |
| 26 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 27 | The dog 's big dish was still more than half full . |
| 28 | The writing of the book was hardly more than half-way done , but did it need to be done here , ferchrissake ? |
| 29 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
| 30 | But was it ever more than just a project for a project ? |