Example sentences of "[adj] than a 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 | A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . ) . |
| 9 | The channel was not a broad one , no more than a single kilometre , but conditions could be rough ; they could be dangerous . |
| 10 | In crystallography , each lattice point can accommodate more than a single atom . |
| 11 | However , the cost is a disadvantage as the full party usually costs a third more than a single hour . |
| 12 | A cordon is no more than a single stem which fruits all the way along . |
| 13 | Spaces with more than two dimensions require more than a single parameter to describe the Gaussian curvature at a given point . |
| 14 | Among the assaults on males , it was only the two acquittal cases where the media coverage lasted more than a single day . |
| 15 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 16 | In the event , no more than a single amendment was made in the Commons . |
| 17 | Yet for many centuries , Cheltenham consisted of no more than a single street , lined with a few houses . |
| 18 | Well , really not much more than a single mew , it 's so small . |
| 19 | This will mean adjusting the time outbound , and allowing more than a single drift on the outbound leg . |
| 20 | The handheld multimedia system that eventually emerges , therefore , will be much more than a single delivery platform . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , per se entire electoral regions , no more than a single distribution would be required . |
| 26 | The report was brief , no more than a single line of coded message , yet it was significant . |
| 27 | He could not be bothered to read anything longer than a single sheet of paper , and even that with great difficulty , and got so bored when any detail was explained to him that he often fell asleep . |
| 28 | This discovery , that a combination can be stronger than a single individual , or a couple , marked a major step in humanity 's development as a species , but carried with it restrictions over sexual activity , because this leads to two people aiming to be independent from everyone else . |
| 29 | The results of this experiment would seem to preclude an analysis of the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic component into anything other than a single string of phonemes . |
| 30 | However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ? |