Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would describe the Apache 's stall as less dramatic than many a light single-engine trainer . |
| 2 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
| 3 | Quakers , evangelicals inside and outside the Church of England and Rational Dissenters and Unitarians all articulated a powerful abolitionist and emancipationist appeal over more than half a century . |
| 4 | One would guess not more than half a dozen in the average parish , often fewer than that . |
| 5 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 6 | Similarly , most villages today do not qualify by these standards — most are suburban or retirement centres , not more than half a dozen practise communal agriculture , and most do not even have working farms in them . |
| 7 | Maybe not more than half a dozen in in fact , I remember only four I think , the lat one I was at . |
| 8 | However , in keeping with the somewhat critical approach adopted in Chapter 1 , and because we also wish to indicate how our studies might be put upon a set-theoretical base ( the soundness of which is the concern of set-theorists ) we propose definitions rather more formal than many a reader might expect . |
| 9 | Libraries in the college sector usually have very small professional staff complements ( often just one or two , and only exceptionally more than half a dozen ) , which do not allow library management on a subject specialization basis . |
| 10 | A typical value might be eight bytes , leading to an index size of rather more than half a track ( the number of entries in the index depends on the number of tracks or buckets , while the size of the track depends on the device ) . |
| 11 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 12 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 13 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 14 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 15 | It is quite a lesson to find that without continuo yet with authentically detached string-style , plus ponderous accentuation , this sounds even slower than such a modern-style performer as Bernstein ( DG ) , who at a similar speed makes the melody soar . |
| 16 | Human development is rather more complicated , rather less rigidly determined than such a view suggests . |
| 17 | Yet less than half a million votes were cast to keep Cripps inside the Labour Party , far fewer than were cast three years earlier to accept the affiliation of the Communist Party . |
| 18 | With the partial exception of the two decades which followed the Treaty of Utrecht ( and even then there were probably never less than half a million men under arms in Europe ) there was scarcely a year in the century during which a large-scale struggle was not either raging or threatened in some part of the continent . |