Example sentences of "[adj] than a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 2 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 3 | Beneath this lay sixty to a hundred communion wafers , each no bigger than a ten pence piece , each with four small Xs crossed by vertical letter Ps embossed on the surface . |
| 4 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 5 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 6 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 7 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 8 | He was one of fewer than a dozen leaders conversant with the Society 's policy of seeking French military help , and in 1796 he was appointed to the movement 's first national executive committee . |
| 9 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 10 | ‘ Fewer than a dozen people know the contents of the speech — some at the BBC and some at Buckingham Palace . ’ |
| 11 | For the size of frame illustrated , and smaller , use nothing larger than a 60 watt bulb |
| 12 | That only cost sixty pound , I said only , well it 's better than a hundred pounds she said . |
| 13 | An open question is one which requires more than a one word or one phrase answer . |
| 14 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 15 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 16 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |
| 17 | He has no more than a 5050 chance . ’ |
| 18 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 19 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 20 | Er , whether they , a different government would legislate erm , against people having more than a twenty percent stake in er , B Sky B for instance remains to be seen . |
| 21 | They moved more than 3,000 tonnes of soil and sourced more than a 1,000 tonnes of clean building rubble , completing this task by the middle of January 1990 . |
| 22 | Educationally disappointing and commercially disastrous , Domesday sold probably sold little more than a 1,000 units against a forecast of many times this figure . |
| 23 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 24 | ‘ I should , but this is more important than a dozen shows . |
| 25 | In 1948 , a little less than a million households were drawing national assistance . |
| 26 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 27 | 60% of child cycle owners have less than a two kilometre journey to school ; |
| 28 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're two up in the Texaco and nothing less than a 5-0 whitewash will satisfy me . |
| 30 | As effective economic policy can hardly be judged in less than a three year period , and political affiliation is also a long-term question , it seems entirely reasonable that aid should be committed over a three year period . |