Example sentences of "[adj] than an [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 2 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 3 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 4 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 5 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |