Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.

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1 The 1970 Act required the EPA to prescribe NAAQSs which were not to be exceeded in any region more than one day per year , or during more than a limited period within that day ( table 8.1 ) .
2 Mr and Mrs T questioned whether family counselling might have been a better way of dealing with a very complicated situation , or at worst whether an interdict could be placed on the older boys in the W family .
3 It does not seem generally known that for more than a year after VJ Day more than 120,000 Allied POWs were kept in internment camps in Java .
4 Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era .
5 I learned from local hoteliers the staggering statistics that in less than a decade , the number of hotel rooms nearby had increased from 70 to 800 .
6 Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent .
7 Around the world generally one finds similar examples , albeit on less than an American scale , and there are probably many more not yet known in the world 's literature .
8 Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts .
9 And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway .
10 And for more than a century they were home to livestock .
11 And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations .
12 The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island .
13 And in less than a year after that the Secretary of State may make it clear that our client group is radically changed and moved
14 Cytomegalovirus was associated with AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis in only two of the present patients in whom cryptosporidiosis was not also implicated and in less than a third overall ; these represent less than 10% of all cases of cytomegalovirus enteritis seen during the study period .
15 As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal .
16 The wind turned colder , with a scatter of rain , and in less than an hour it was dark .
17 One can get a further perspective on the development of the class/politics relationship in the period of the Wilson government by asking the question of whether matters could have turned out very differently , and in particular whether a ‘ socialist alternative ’ was there for the taking .
18 Between 1929 and 1933 America 's national income fell by more than half in money terms , and by more than a third in real terms .
19 To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month .
20 But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press .
21 ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’
22 Rather than to characterise Genetic Alchemy as definitive I prefer to view it as a valuable ‘ second generation ’ effort , considerably more scholarly than its predecessors but with more than a whiff of the critical and sceptical attitudes of the disciplines that focus not so much on the substance of science as on its character as a social institution .
23 These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility .
24 Companies with a larger turnover but with less than a 20 per cent market share may , however , benefit from an opposition procedure ( see p. 66 ) .
25 Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake .
26 But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it .
27 Colin French walked out of court this afternoon — flanked by police for his own protection — but in less than a month he could be behind bars .
28 But in less than an hour he was back , and he looked very afraid .
29 But within less than an hour he was back on his farm .
30 For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting !
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