Example sentences of "[adv] for [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 2 | I am delighted : it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years . |
| 3 | Even professional tape-recorders after the war could not keep the quality high enough for more than two or three generations . |
| 4 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Only once did we have leave together for more than forty-eight hours back in Edinburgh . |
| 8 | But after a little gentle persuasion , she has allowed me to tell you she is Maggie Lomas , the regular director of our main news programmed She knows me pretty well by now — after all , we 've worked together for more than 20 years , including the recent series of " At Home " programmes . |
| 9 | They worked together for more than twenty years . |
| 10 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been together for more than 18 months and we see one another when we can . |
| 12 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 13 | ‘ When I 'm away for more than six or seven days , the pang starts and I need to see her ’ . |
| 14 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 15 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 16 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 17 | It was a game that kicked off an hour late after a bomb alert closed White Hart Lane leaving thousands of fans and both teams locked outside for more than two hours . |
| 18 | Your building is completed ; your medical establishment arranged ; the rules and orders for the government of the House suggested and published ; and already for more than one month , the indigent and afflicted have been deriving comfort and relief from the institution . |
| 19 | Today he will set off from Paignton to Topsham , a 27.7-mile walk that will mean pounding the roads non-stop for more than eight hours . |
| 20 | He has lived at his Glebe Farm home for more than 30 years but had not relished fighting for its survival . |
| 21 | TWO men were rescued from a pothole after being trapped underground for more than ten hours last night . |
| 22 | The rain had been falling now for more than four hours . |
| 23 | Ignorance is not a credible excuse and any practitioner found in serious breach of regulations — which have been with us now for more than four years — can expect the Joint Monitoring Unit to be less than sympathetic . |
| 24 | Hours of teaching practice varied between 90 and 630 , and supervision ( ignoring those who listed upwards of 100 hours ! ) was often for less than 10 hours in total — noticeably less than for English on average . |
| 25 | How can we appeal to part time workers and convince them that we can change things for the better , many of whom are home workers who are working in appalling conditions and often for less than fifty pence an hour ? |
| 26 | The ascent was arduous and prolonged , twisting and turning upwards for more than twelve kilometres to the pass , almost a thousand metres high . |
| 27 | So ended a dispute between the Crown and its subjects which had gone on intermittently for more than four hundred years . |
| 28 | Those who are here for less than 6 months may need to arrange medical insurance . |
| 29 | ‘ I have lived here for more than four years . |
| 30 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |