Example sentences of "[noun] has [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 2 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 3 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 4 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 5 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 6 | Such a premature baby has less than a 10 per cent chance of survival and a healthy life because the lungs are not fully developed . |
| 7 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 8 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 9 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 10 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 11 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |