Example sentences of "[det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Better that than a coffin , ’ he whispered , adding as he leaned in to retrieve his fiddle : ‘ And if my coffin is half as comfortable ‘ t is a smooth journey I 'll be having to Paradise . ’ |
| 2 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 3 | And political apathy reigns : despite the significance of the election , fewer than a quarter of Mrs Molina 's constituents bothered to vote in the run-off . |
| 4 | Fewer than a quarter described themselves as ‘ just listening ’ in a 1971 survey . |
| 5 | On the northern fringe of the wood-pasture belt fewer than a quarter of the people of Blofield , East Flegg and Walsham hundreds in Norfolk had less than £2 , almost as many having £5 — £9 . |
| 6 | These figures suggest that slightly fewer than a quarter of our most influential church musicians are professionals , in the sense that they derive the major part of their income from music . |
| 7 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 8 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 9 | According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 10 | Fewer than a quarter of 500 men questioned in the survey knew how to do up a bow tie and under half knew the name of the knot in their tie on the day they were interviewed . |
| 11 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 12 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 13 | What better place to get one of those than a racecourse , Doughray ? |
| 14 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's more than a guard ’ said a spokesman . |
| 16 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
| 17 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 18 | But , much more than a filmmaker like Hepworth , he had learnt to find stories that would have genuine popular appeal . |
| 19 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 20 | He was searching for ‘ his class ’ , which he never found , and talked about ‘ the laboratory ’ , which was no more than a back kitchen with a bunsen burner and running water . |
| 21 | His glorious book is more than a history and more than a 25,000-mile travelogue , although it is also both of those . |
| 22 | Yes , they needed more than a word for themselves , more than a central symbol for their pride ; they needed a focus — something to restore them to themselves . |
| 23 | Our system is much more than a word processor . |
| 24 | Reading is a process of identification with a work and a faithful reading will be nothing more than a word for word repetition of the text . |
| 25 | Smack in the middle of Milton Keynes the £1m building sets out to be more than a church . |
| 26 | Although her satire on wedlock was not published for more than a century after her death , its composition elicited an immediate rebuke from her brother Samuel , who admonished her thus : Repent , renounce all wicked wit : … |
| 27 | It has also been seen in a more subtle form in the moves in Sierra Leone in the 1970s and Liberia in the 1980s by the ‘ truly indigenous ’ or tribal population to take economic power away from the creole population which had been active in trading and business for more than a century . |
| 28 | This book has concentrated on the political and social values of Africa today , and traced their evolution over more than a century . |
| 29 | Changes in these attitudes and practices will be the result of a long political process which will certainly take more than a century to work out , and even then will probably compress the time which it took Europe to work through comparable processes . |
| 30 | After more than a century of classical architecture , the mainstream of which became plainer and duller towards the end of the Georges , it is no wonder that the second Sir Robert wanted to go ‘ Tudor ’ . |