Example sentences of "[noun] by [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank the Goddess Zambia had had the sense to get out before some scuzzie had violated hir by more than just a beating . |
| 2 | Minton , like Whistler , was attracted to the docks by more than just his sense of sight . |
| 3 | A decision to cut a town 's tourist budget by more than half has angered shopkeepers and hoteliers . |
| 4 | They do n't occur at a uniform rate , but there 's nothing in Darwinism which implies that they should , but I was looking at some data on radiolarians recently in which about every sixty thousand years there 's a population sample — I mean you can estimate and see the rate at which this stuff is building up — and in no occasion in a period of sixty thousand years did the population change by more than about half a standard deviation . |
| 5 | If the new approach were adopted , Britain would have to cut emissions by more than almost anyone else — 60 percent — in order for Europe to achieve an overall cut of 30 percent . |