Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
3 | Port Solent has a choice of houses and apartments to suit the various needs of the yachtsman and those who want more than a home on the waterfront . |
4 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
5 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
6 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
9 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
10 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
11 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
12 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
13 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
14 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
15 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
16 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
17 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
18 | You 'll need more than a bottle of rum to get through this disaster of a voyage ! |
19 | Holding high small thin green shoots thicker than a matchstick but no thicker than a pencil , he jeered at women satisfied , he said , by ‘ little boys ’ . |
20 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
21 | At The American College in London you earn more than a degree — you receive an education with a career focus and individual attention from faculty who are professionals in their fields . |
22 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
23 | With a pair of macaws fetching up to £10 000 and with an ounce of ground rhinoceros horn costing more than an ounce of gold in Asian medicine shops , the stakes are high . |
24 | Negotiation and discussion will achieve more than a row , but if a clash is unavoidable , explain to them why you were shouting . |
25 | With Puffed Wheat an ounce would actually overflow in many bowls , so people tend to serve less than an ounce . |
26 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
27 | The text of each chapter is split into sections averaging less than a page , each of which is introduced by an imaginative , succinct heading . |
28 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
29 | When the dark blue uniforms of a sergeant and constable appeared in the doorway , they stood out like sore thumbs , causing more than a ripple of interest from the somewhat less than friendly clientele . |
30 | ‘ To make you happy , Schätzchen , I would give more than a Brancusi , ’ Thomas said softly . |