Example sentences of "[adj] than a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 32 | The size of the neat , compact body is deceptive : the Devon can weigh more than a Hereford or Beef Shorthorn . |
| 33 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 34 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 35 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 36 | Group size is very small , rarely amounting to more than a singleton or a mother with a dependent infant . |
| 37 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 38 | There were walls , no more than a pace or two either side of him . |
| 39 | Some struggled against her , but few held out for more than a moment or two . |
| 40 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |
| 41 | But was it Woolworths or Marks who had that little slogan , was it , nothing , not a was it not a penny , nothing more than a penny or not a thruppence |
| 42 | Attached to the Palace at Hailing in medieval times was the Bishop 's or Church Prison , mainly used for detaining those accused of lesser crimes such as debt and was probably no more than a cell or a building without windows but lit from a small skylight . |
| 43 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 44 | Powershift is going to put him down more than a notch or two in the meantime . |
| 45 | And someone else might catch it and get much more than a spot or two , so you see , you must be public-spirited about this . |
| 46 | ‘ Highlander is much more than a place or an institution . |
| 47 | The desktop systems simply do not possess the storage capacity or speed required to manipulate colour documents of more than a page or two , let alone have the operator skills . |
| 48 | ‘ No more than a dog or cat . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ To be honest , at first I did n't have a clue how long I 'd stay , ’ says Bassett , ‘ so I can understand why some locals did n't think I 'd last more than a season or so . |
| 50 | But the shaper is more than a surgeon or scientist or sculptor : he does more than repair or re-form : he energizes inert matter , turning a slab of foam into a fibreglass dolphin . |
| 51 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 52 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 53 | ‘ But it should n't last more than a week or so . |
| 54 | ‘ How will you ever meet a prospective father for your children if you 're never in one place for more than a week or two ? ’ |
| 55 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 56 | The Open University freaks have taken so many short cuts that they are rudderless ships on that same deep ocean which you , most probably , crossed with nothing more than a paddle or ragged bit of sail under a stiff breeze and with a lively brain . |
| 57 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
| 58 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 59 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |
| 60 | Equally , a guarantee by the surety of the repairing covenant is no more than a covenant or warranty that the guarantor will procure that the tenant , in turn , procures the premises to be kept in repair . |