Example sentences of "[adj] than [adj] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no later than half an hour ago contacted my office and there has been no official communication re any decision being made on the royal dockyard and the capacity none whatsoever . |
| 2 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 3 | When there was little more than half an inch left protruding from the frame he gripped it with thumb and forefinger and started to work it around . |
| 4 | I do n't think I ever saw J[ack] work more than half an hour without the cry of ‘ Barboys ! ’ — ‘ Coming , dear ! ’ , down would go the pen , and he would be away perhaps five minutes , perhaps half an hour ; possibly to do nothing more important than stand by the kitchen range as scullery maid . |
| 5 | I would not anticipate taking more than half an hour to complete the filming during which time we would make every endeavour not to restrict access to your shop by other customers . |
| 6 | You know , when I came from ’ — she thumbed towards the wall — next door , not more than half an hour ago , I was very sad inside . |
| 7 | Unless you are an especially skilled presenter never talk for more than half an hour without allowing your audience some kind of break . |
| 8 | You 'd be glad to get in there for half an hour but you would n't risk more than half an hour . |
| 9 | Not more than half an hour had passed when a little grey tractor chugged into the car park . |
| 10 | Maintaining your own rhythm and upsetting other people 's is the basic art in the mountain climb that can last more than half an hour . |
| 11 | You love him , he 's kind to animals , and is never more than half an hour late , but is that a good basis on which to plan your lives together ? |
| 12 | 1 No more than half an hour before serving , halve , stone and peel the avocados . |
| 13 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 14 | Once he got started , the Brigadier did n't draw breath for more than half an hour . |
| 15 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 16 | I think the longest one lasted more than half an hour . |
| 17 | Not that she spent more than half an hour each night in her own dressing-room . |
| 18 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 19 | Barely more than half an hour before , he 'd driven into the village on an errand for the Venetz sisters and although he saw almost no one along the way , he 'd been able to sense a tension in the air ; it was a faint background buzz like that of power lines in the rain . |
| 20 | For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment . |
| 21 | From there , the crossing and the distance he had covered on that path , to the place where he was found , would take him no more than half an hour — less , if he was a brisk walker , and it was raining , he 'd be no longer than he need out in it . |
| 22 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 23 | In order to travel all together in one compartment , we had to arrive more than half an hour before the train was to start . |
| 24 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 25 | According to Swayne , it is the creature 's habit to be out for no more than half an hour at night . ’ |
| 26 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 27 | ‘ It would n't take more than half an hour . |
| 28 | ‘ No more than half an hour . |
| 29 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
| 30 | No more than half an hour . ’ |