Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The TLP was the most economical of more than a dozen development schemes under consideration . |
| 2 | Belonging to the hymenopteran family Formicidae , they are extremely diverse with more than 8800 known species placed in 292 genera by modern systematists . |
| 3 | Spraying methods have remained basically unchanged for more than 100 years . |
| 4 | Of particular importance among recent works is Janet Todd 's A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660–1800 ( 1984 ) which brings forward an enormous amount of information about writers , some of whom have been entirely unregarded for more than two centuries . |
| 5 | Too large a group ( especially one with more than seven members ) leads to restraints on participation . |
| 6 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 7 | P24 is only one of more than 80 AIDS drugs currently on trial . |
| 8 | It was much warmer in the bathroom after Mrs Popple 's bath — much warmer at least than it was anywhere else in the suburban house . |
| 9 | The bridge , which appears much wider from inside than from Priestgate , includes other smaller units and a kiosk as well as a pedestrian walkway linking the two sections of the Cornmill . |
| 10 | Kibbutzim children too are reported to have no difficulty in relative to more than one parental figure at the same time ( Pringle , 1972 ) |
| 11 | Staining was optimal after 18–24 hours of fixation , but less intense after more than 48 hours of fixation . |
| 12 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 13 | The couple appeared in court in Illinois on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to more than 60 charges including cruelty and neglect and possessing marijuana . |
| 14 | Low take-up of benefits was largely responsible for more than four million people who were living on incomes below the income support level , said CPAG . |
| 15 | In some instances , parts were not available for more than four weeks after the machine had broken down . |
| 16 | Newman has broken his left ankle , although the extent of the damage was not apparent until more than 24 hours after Monday 's goalless draw at Elland Road . |
| 17 | Magistrates and judges were given the power to release upon probation for good conduct first offenders who had committed an offence not punishable by more than three years imprisonment . |
| 18 | This is not significant for less than three tracks , as it is effectively the same as a sequential search for one or two tracks . |
| 19 | Dutch painting thus suggests a vision of interiors more revelatory by far than that of ‘ taste ’ . |
| 20 | Governments have tended in the main to be more interested in macro-rather than micro- ( individual programme ) problems . |
| 21 | Please yourself whether you come inside or not , but you 'd be far more comfortable in there than spending the night out here . ’ |
| 22 | You know she looks a lot more comfortable in there than Charlotte did . |
| 23 | But I mean d do you think the people are more unfriendly around here than they are in other parts of the town ? |
| 24 | In the sphere of juvenile justice , policy making is further complicated by more than one government department being involved and a wide range of statutory and voluntary services as well as the police and the penal system . |
| 25 | She would instantly see that a plastic spoon proffered in open-hearted supplication and tender humility was more beautiful by far than any thorny rose or second-hand diamond given to her with a leer of anticipation . |
| 26 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 27 | The Teatro Anatomico of Padua , the oldest surviving in the world , is once more open after more than 3000 hours of highly specialised restoration work . |
| 28 | It had loomed over him out of the spectral mist , more horrible by far than the ghoul brats he and Cleo had encountered in the forest . |
| 29 | One of the earliest and most famous of more than one hundred and sixty thrillers and mysteries from the phenomenal and rather strange Mr Edgar Wallace , and certainly one of the most accomplished , readable and ingenious of them all . |
| 30 | th than first thing in the morning erm whereas I , I think probably I am probably better as soon as I get up than last thing at night . |