Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We found fewer than a fifth of bank and building society branches publicised the code with posters or leaflets , and staff knew little or nothing about it . |
| 2 | The new batch of home-brew tasted better than the last lot , and stronger . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Insurance premiums for works travelling to and from Paris have risen sharply over recent years , often representing more than a third of the total cost of an exhibition . |
| 5 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 6 | Although rental accommodation comprised more than a third of Pittsburgh 's housing only 5 per cent of URA housing expenditure was expressly devoted to this sector . |
| 7 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 8 | Norwegian rules generally forbid foreign investors to own more than a third of an insurer . |
| 9 | A good-looking , pre-war pen cost less than a third of its modern cousin , and wrote just as well . |
| 10 | Fats should contribute less than a third of the total energy in your diet . |
| 11 | The 75th anniversary flypast is one of the most ambitious displays the RAF has ever staged , ivolving more than a third of it 's aircraft . |
| 12 | But a second phantom chorus sings louder than the first . |
| 13 | His wife added : ‘ I just hope this honeymoon goes better than the last . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , this searcher may well be interested in titles like " The ecology of the smaller rodents " , but these should be ranked lower than the first two . |
| 15 | Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp . |
| 16 | A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm . |
| 17 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 18 | When writing glissandos it is not necessary to give more than the first and last notes of the glissando , if the notes to which the harp is to be set are given . |
| 19 | And probably getting less than a third of the pay of most MPs round here . |
| 20 | The rapid decline in noble land-holding continued , so that by 1914 the nobility owned less than a third of what they had owned in 1861 . |
| 21 | In the remaining seats , the candidates who got more than an eighth of the total vote go to a second ballot . |
| 22 | A spokesperson for Upjohn says that the company prefers to maintain an independent anti-AIDS programme , which now receives more than a fifth of the corporate budget for drug discovery research . |
| 23 | Malaysia now produces more than a third of the world 's 's palm oil , and oil palm nuts make an attractive food for the Malayan wood rat ( Rattus tiomanicus ) , the ricefield rat ( Rattus argentiventer ) , and the little rat ( Rattus exulans ) . |
| 24 | This now contributes more than a third of Zurich 's total premium income , and well over 40% of its non-life business . |
| 25 | It may take less than a tenth of a second , yet the fish do not bump into each other . |
| 26 | Choosing this road is likely to cost more than the first option , but you will at least ensure that your doors are the best that money can buy . |
| 27 | EACH new indignity in the heap visited on Welsh rugby seems worse than the last . |
| 28 | Actually , she looked better than the last time Anne had seen her alive . |
| 29 | Still , critics wonder how an institution next to the Museum of Natural History and a block away from New York 's Columbus Avenue could attract less than a third of the number of visitors who go every year to Norman Rockwell 's home in Stockbridge , Massachusetts . |
| 30 | Others are quite literally hedging their bets , hoping the next scheme will pay more than the last . |