Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [det] [subord] [art] " 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 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 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 | A survey would establish once and for all whether the coal they are taking out is paying its way and whether the pit has a future . ’ |
| 9 | Well if that 's the case it must be sorted out once and for all if the club is to go forward . |
| 10 | Hence , one may be able to work out the broad effect of interdependencies once and for all when the strategy is set . |
| 11 | Thereafter , and for more than a generation , Germany was the stage on which the rival powers played out their conflicts . |
| 12 | And for more than a mile they threaded their way around the standing pools that reached from the verges out into the drying roadway . |
| 13 | And for more than a century they were home to livestock . |
| 14 | And for more than an hour they heard about the glory of steam and engines and old stations . |
| 15 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And in less than no time the weeks passed and the memories of that dreaded party were only a vaguely uneasy thought in the sealed-off recesses of Robyn 's mind . |
| 21 | The wind turned colder , with a scatter of rain , and in less than an hour it was dark . |
| 22 | This sum is equivalent to about one third of the Government grant to Radio Tanzania for the same period , and to more than the entire sum allocated to the development of information and broadcasting services in the first Five Year plan . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To let them stay — well , not for ever , but for more than a month . |
| 25 | But after more than a decade , and scores of contacts with the press . |
| 26 | ‘ My bag ! ’ she said out loud and then , more softly but with more than a touch of anguish , ‘ Oh no , the letter ! ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | These traditions also have their echoes in Gregory of Tours , but with more than a note of hostility . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |