Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time of year there was n't enough milk anywhere in the village to borrow for more than a few days . |
| 2 | Downes himself could not stay for more than a few minutes . |
| 3 | The so-called Anabaptists ' take-over of Munster in 1536 became for more than a century afterwards a byword among the respectable for the supposed anarchy , savagery and madness which were bound to result if ever the " multitude " gained political power . |
| 4 | It will be hard , as only one in ten succeed in abstaining for more than a year . |
| 5 | The Collector , his mind too feverish to recollect for more than a moment what all this activity was about , became absorbed in the contemplation of this pariah dog . |
| 6 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
| 7 | One is certainly not enough , when you consider the number of cars and drivers who use this stretch of motorway each day.It 's unwise for people tol have to drive for more than an hour and a half without taking a break . |
| 8 | Other costs seem equally hard to cut ( staff costs account for less than a third of the total ) . |
| 9 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 10 | An inquest has heard that a baby boy , who lived for less than an hour , could have died because of injuries caused by forceps used during his birth . |
| 11 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 12 | The Russian plan , probably inspired by the offer of £200,000 from British conservation groups to buy Brightness and his beluga comrade , Gorgeous , who is still free , prompted a furious reaction from British campaigners who fought for more than a month to have the beluga airlifted from Turkish waters to the Arctic . |
| 13 | It may be that like the other NCT groups people do not feel the need to attend for more than a few months ( ca n't stay a New Mum for ever ! ! ! ) and at the moment no one needs the MiE group I do not know and I would like to find out . |
| 14 | Some of the consequences were outlined in a study released on the eve of the conference by Arthur Andersen Petroleum Services which claimed that 20 per cent of future UK projects had been delayed for more than a year by the cash flow situation and other uncertainties . |
| 15 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 16 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 17 | Such comparison can not justify that performance — nothing can justify leaving 20,000 properties empty for more than a year . |
| 18 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 19 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 20 | Germany 's biggest tyre company and the second largest in Europe , Continental has for more than a century been world leaders in tyre design and technology |
| 21 | But after a week of total failure to concentrate for more than a minute he had to acknowledge to himself that nothing was going right . |
| 22 | The retailers Carpenter 's have been trading for more than a century . |
| 23 | The attack took place on April 30th and was not reported for more than a month . |
| 24 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 25 | The following afternoon , as she approached the laundry , she wondered what was in store ; and dread , mixed with more than a grain of excitement , gnawed at her innards . |
| 26 | DEFENDING champions Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf could both be missing when Wimbledon starts in less than a fortnight . |
| 27 | In practice they occurred in less than a quarter of the cases recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 . |
| 28 | Bleary-eyed after counting and recounting 15,000 layers , they discovered that the climate shifts occurred in less than a decade and that the shifts occurred approximately 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated from the ice cores. although such layer counting has a credibility problem , at the Summit site et all . |
| 29 | A black hole is a region of space from which it is impossible to escape if one is traveling at less than the speed of light . |
| 30 | The function includes part of the competitive labour supply function , i.e. that segment of L s above and to the right of point B , but renders inoperative the remaining part , i.e. that segment of L s below and to the left of point B. Workers who are willing to work at less than the wage stipulated by trades unions ( w 1 in Figure 5.1 ) will be excluded from active participation in the labour market for as long as these powerful combinations maintain their stranglehold as monopoly suppliers of labour . |