Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than [adj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private letters are like a conversation overheard , often more revealing than an autobiography , or than a diary which may have been written with more than half an intention of allowing it to be published . |
| 2 | Rory told Jessica about his girlfriend Rosie , not a great deal but nothing too disloyal , while she for her part realised after some moments that she was not listening with more than half an ear , but wondering what she should tell him about Parr . |
| 3 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 4 | Unless you are an especially skilled presenter never talk for more than half an hour without allowing your audience some kind of break . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once he got started , the Brigadier did n't draw breath for more than half an hour . |
| 7 | For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment . |
| 8 | He had been on the telephone for more than half an hour , he said , and had got precious little sense out of them . |
| 9 | Alexandria Gaunt , aged seven months , was trapped in the cot for more than half an hour as her worried family tried to release her . |
| 10 | She stunned the medical team by attempting to make conversation for more than half an hour before she lost consciousness . |
| 11 | But in less than half an hour , the country people dispersed themselves , when the garrison of the castle fired a ten-gun battery upon them , which it is believed killed several . |
| 12 | They reached Los Ilusiones in less than half an hour . |
| 13 | In less than half an hour they were all airborne and Rob was flying on his seventeenth raid over occupied Europe . |
| 14 | They will be there in less than half an hour . |
| 15 | In less than half an hour , the rapture has vanished into the ether , and Highbury is once more what I have always known it to be — a refuge for depressives and malcontents , whingers and whiners . |
| 16 | ‘ Cai n't even cross a road in less than half an hour in this state . |