Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 2 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 3 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 4 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 5 | At constant ( 1976 ) prices , the sales of all the industrial co-operatives rose from 5,200 million pesetas in 1965 to 28,750 million pesetas in 1979 ; and their share of the domestic market rose from less than 1 per cent in 1960 to 10.6 per cent in 1976 . |
| 6 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 7 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 8 | Serious injury occurred in fewer than six per cent . |
| 9 | Last year its earnings rose by more than half , to £664 million , making a large contribution to the balance of payments . |
| 10 | Although the state retirement pension remains linked to prices and , subject to the proviso noted above , retains its ‘ real ’ value , the commitment to raise pensions in line with earnings ( in years when earnings rose by more than prices ) was abolished in 1980 . |
| 11 | Some goods rose by more than this average percentage . |
| 12 | Grapes and sunflowers flourished in southern England but the real winners were suppliers of insecticides : sales to agriculture and horticulture rose by more than a third in 1989 . |
| 13 | Crime recorded in the Central South region last year rose by more than the national average . |
| 14 | The price of developed building land in Germany rose by more than one-third between 1970 and 1972 . |
| 15 | Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime . |
| 16 | His Nan always gets lollies in for the kids and they came in more than useful this time . ’ |
| 17 | That came from more than a few crossed twigs and dry leaves . |
| 18 | His skull , which protruded above a filthy cravat , was so small that the features of his face seemed to more than cover it ; he was bald , which added to the grotesque effect . |
| 19 | Use of deputies both in Berkshire and in England and Wales dropped by more than half since 1989 . |
| 20 | The civilization flourished for more than a millennium until , about 1400 BC , the comparatively nearby volcanic island of Thera erupted in a fashion that makes the 1883 Krakatoa event look like a mere squib . |
| 21 | Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor . |
| 22 | She asked with more than a hint of sarcasm in her voice . |
| 23 | In our case , by starting two small congregations which began with fewer than forty , the total number of those attending on Sunday mornings grew from around 200 to around 400 as a result of this strategy . |
| 24 | This page Business failures : Business failures soared by more than a third in the second half of this year . |
| 25 | Although there are many other causes of coprolalia , the essential diagnostic criteria for the diagnosis of Tourette 's syndrome is the onset , before the age of 21 , of multiple motor and one or more vocal tics , which have recurred frequently and persisted for more than a year . |
| 26 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 27 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 28 | Here the density of the labouring population speaks for itself , though while in the Cosford villages it reached almost 55 per cent , in the rising centre Hadleigh it amounted to less than a third . |
| 29 | CoSLA condemned the allocations as ‘ wholly inadequate ’ , saying the figures amounted to less than half the local authority bids for social work . |
| 30 | Her book sales amounted to more than a quarter of a million . |