Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than a [noun] " 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 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 3 | In my view Labour 's stunning defeat requires of it much more than a commitment to PR and a pre-electoral arrangement with the Liberal Democrats . |
| 4 | The Railway Age , which brings together more than a century and a half of railway tradition on a single site in the heart of Cheshire is set to become a major tourist attraction of national significance , and is located within the town 's famous rail interchange , one of the largest in Europe . |
| 5 | But Lij Yasu 's partiality for Islam was apparently more than a question of convenience . |
| 6 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 7 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 8 | Powershift is going to put him down more than a notch or two in the meantime . |
| 9 | The march took many years , perhaps more than a century . |
| 10 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 11 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 12 | ‘ We open in less than a fortnight , ’ Peter Hickton continued to argue . |
| 13 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 14 | And her beauty was already more than a promise . |
| 15 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 16 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 17 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 18 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 19 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 20 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 21 | Before her was a narrow ledge , scarcely more than a metre wide . |
| 22 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 23 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |
| 24 | It is worth emphasizing that a fit is made to pulse measurements extending over more than a decade , i.e. over 3 x 10 8 s , with an accuracy to 10 7minus4 S or better ! |
| 25 | Figure 10.4 shows the decay of the orbital period measured over more than a decade , expressed as phase-lag in seconds ; the prediction from GR is indicated by the solid line . |
| 26 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 27 | Clive was already less than a ghost , less than a memory . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm already less than a metre high . |
| 29 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 30 | Where rainwater ‘ soakaways ’ are used , they should be at least 5m ( 16ft 6in ) from the foundations , and consist of an excavated pit not less than a 1m cube filled with gravel and surrounded by silt , sand and gravel . |