Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author .
2 The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion .
3 The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence .
4 A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools .
5 From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course .
6 The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush .
7 The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations for 1904 lists ‘ Stretford Bridge Junction Station ’ , suggesting something rather more grand than the single platform , without even a name board , that represented the sole facility for passengers here .
8 he had to share a bathroom with the four other tenants on the floor , and the room itself consisted of little more than a single bed pushed up against the wall to one side of the room , a wood-wormed wardrobe and a single gas ring for cooking .
9 Most of his work is now done to commission , and deals with world issues such as the Arms Race and famines , subjects which Kennard feels can only be addressed by using ‘ more than a single click of the camera ’ .
10 No more than one LM granule needs to be used in preparing the stock bottle since Hahnemann says ‘ one rarely needs more than a single globule of appropriately dynamised medicine ’ ( para. 248a . ) .
11 The channel was not a broad one , no more than a single kilometre , but conditions could be rough ; they could be dangerous .
12 In crystallography , each lattice point can accommodate more than a single atom .
13 However , the cost is a disadvantage as the full party usually costs a third more than a single hour .
14 A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along .
15 Spaces with more than two dimensions require more than a single parameter to describe the Gaussian curvature at a given point .
16 Among the assaults on males , it was only the two acquittal cases where the media coverage lasted more than a single day .
17 But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur .
18 In the event , no more than a single amendment was made in the Commons .
19 Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses .
20 Well , really not much more than a single mew , it 's so small .
21 This will mean adjusting the time outbound , and allowing more than a single drift on the outbound leg .
22 The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform .
23 According to Engels , two-thirds of its working people possess no more than a single room per family , and Roberts 's figures are even more specific : 929 families have only one room , 623 only one bed .
24 Two community or measles studies that we included had more than a single death and were not individually statistically significant : those by Barclay et al and Vijayaraghavan et al .
25 If the user decided on very large keys — and IBM allows up to 256 bytes , for example — the track index might take up more than a single track .
26 This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction .
27 In Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , per se entire electoral regions , no more than a single distribution would be required .
28 The report was brief , no more than a single line of coded message , yet it was significant .
29 The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral .
30 Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size .
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