Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 2 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 3 | If these underground emotions came to the surface all at once , they would shatter our existence , but fortunately they come upon us gradually — more so for some than for others . |
| 4 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 5 | Only three of the whole group had worked since redundancy , and only one of those did so for more than half of the time between redundancy and interview . |
| 6 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 7 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 8 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 9 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 10 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 11 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 12 | Had they done so with more than ordinary intensity so that they had left behind something of themselves — a persistent aura ? |
| 13 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 14 | Glucose adsorption from HYPO-ORS and RS-ORS was almost identical and was less from either than from WHO-ORS ( p<0.004 ) . |
| 15 | I 'll grant you were in a bad state , which was hardly surprising after all the business with losing your part and then Lesley-Jane going off with Micky — incidentally , there was less in that than you thought , but that 's by the way . |
| 16 | Investigations show that replacing arable land with woodland would probably reduce the amount of nitrate leached to groundwater , but perhaps by less than was expected , since natural forest processes themselves release nitrate into the ground . |
| 17 | Replacing arable land with woodland would thus probably reduce the amount of nitrate leached to groundwater , but perhaps by less than was expected . |
| 18 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 19 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 20 | But , as RICHARD BATH discovers , England 's appointment of coach DICK BEST for less than a year means that , instead of a bright new era , we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages . |
| 21 | The couple say the house is already worth less than their mortgage . |
| 22 | The pound had NOT been devalued — it was just worth less than before , a line echoed by Mr Lamont in TV interviews . |
| 23 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 24 | You will not get away with less than Dm300 for two in the evening , with wine on top . |
| 25 | That may have been the occasion on which , according to tradition , Betsy went to her quarters and changed her clothes as disaster threatened , her fear of the elements being less than her horror of being washed ashore in less than spotless undergarments . |
| 26 | This may come more naturally and easily to some than to others , but it is possible that where a prolonged conscious effort has been made to tap this creative source , greater understanding and appreciation result than where only little work has been needed . |
| 27 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 28 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 29 | In Russia , whatever big Boris Yeltsin may be — and you only have to look at him to know more about that than you want to — he is no Gorbachev . |
| 30 | Will they know more about that than they do when they simply carry out what the curriculum requires of them regardless of how it is supported , budgeted for and described to parents by the governors ? |