Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We see no reason why the word should seem strange for more than a short time . |
| 2 | ‘ I doubt if Aldhelm would have lain helpless for more than a quarter of an hour from that blow on the head . |
| 3 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
| 4 | Turkish diplomats say they 're hopeful the couple will be freed unharmed after more than a week in captivity . |
| 5 | To be able just to walk , or drive , wherever you want ; Christ , I 've been away from all this for less than a week and I feel like somebody coming out after thirty years . |
| 6 | Over-50s are excluded from the two groups to whom resources are directed : 18-to-24 year olds who have been unemployed for at least six months ; and 25-to-50 year olds unemployed for more than a year . |
| 7 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 8 | In April 1972 , the proportion unemployed for more than a year accounted for one-sixth of the total unemployed ; by April 1981 , the proportion had risen to one-fifth . |
| 9 | Since 1950 the number of those unemployed for more than a year has increased from 34,000 to more than a million at the start of this year . |
| 10 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
| 11 | There are 5,733 empty council houses , almost 2,000 of which have been empty for more than a year . |
| 12 | We shall continue to put pressure on local authorities with stock that has been empty for more than a year . |
| 13 | He rightly points out that — apart from Brent , which has no overall control , and Tower Hamlets , which is controlled by the Liberal Democrats — the 10 authorities with the highest percentage of empties in their stock are Labour controlled , and about 20,000 properties have been left empty for more than a year . |
| 14 | It may also have different siting relationships to some of these than the purely exploitative patterns indicated above . |
| 15 | Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) . |
| 16 | Quinn said : ‘ I 'm not interested in more than a month on loan here . |
| 17 | Readers interested in more than the bare formula of a dish will appreciate the charming , simple and well explained recipe below . |
| 18 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 19 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 20 | The future and prosperity of the north-west are best served by a Government who are determined to keep inflation down , who want to keep taxes down — and will not let interest rates rise as the Opposition would — and who recognise that the level of strikes is at its lowest for more than a century . |
| 21 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 22 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 23 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 24 | TOWARDS the end of her life my mother was in hospital , a victim of Alzheimer 's Disease , a severe diabetic , unable to walk and increasingly unable to remain conscious for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 25 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 26 | Moreover , the nature of sickness benefit from the state and from many employers means that people who are off work ill for less than a few months may not be worse off financially , anyway . |
| 27 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 28 | If Helen Dobson 's achievement in doing the double of British Match and Stroke-Play titles detracted from everything else , on performance worthy of more than a passing mention was a final day for Julie Hall which took in rounds of 69 and 71 . |
| 29 | Hair is shiny and sophisticated with more than a touch of class ! |
| 30 | Equally importantly , those which were remembered appear to have been unusual in more than the fact that they were busier than other situations , risk appears to have had a quite separate effect . |