Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his arm vigorously for more than a minute , but it was impossible to tell in the uneven twilight whether it dropped out or not . |
| 2 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 3 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 4 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 5 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 6 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 7 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 8 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 9 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 10 | He tried to cover his embarrassment by starting to rub his hands together with more than the usual combustive force , and was secretly rather proud of how she had managed to annoy Special Branch and the intelligence services . |
| 11 | The smaller varieties are usually the most successful , and I would particularly recommend the small outdoor varieties , as they seem to take better to pressing than the larger and lumpier types . |
| 12 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 13 | But , as RICHARD BATH discovers , England 's appointment of coach DICK BEST for less than a year means that , instead of a bright new era , we can expect a diet of pragmatism and playing the percentages . |
| 14 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 15 | If this goes in easily by more than a few millimetres , rot is probably present , and you 'll have to strip off the paint so you can repair it . |
| 16 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 17 | But Best 's lucrative after-dinner speaking engagements are more about fun than the money involved , he insists . |
| 18 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 19 | In countries of labour shortage , undeveloped social hierarchy and a truculent and democratic working population , things might be different ; but in Britain and Germany , France and the Habsburg Empire , unlike Australia or the United States , the suitable maximum for the labouring class was a sufficiency of good decent food ( preferably with less than a sufficiency of strong drink ) , a modestly crowded dwelling , and clothing adequate to protect morals , health and comfort without risking improper emulation of the costume of their betters . |
| 20 | It just shows that there 's more to demo-making than a bunch of programmers having fun . |
| 21 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 22 | After tossing restlessly for more than an hour , Fran got up and crept from the room and down the stairs , hoping that a cup of tea would soothe her nerves . |
| 23 | Hitch was on top throughout and was probably worth better than the two-round winning margin given to him by Darlington referee Arnold Bryson . |
| 24 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 25 | In what , the chairman of the working party responsible for it and president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland , described as ‘ the most fundamental change in audit reporting probably for more than a generation ’ , the SAS seeks to close the so-called expectations gap and bring practice into line with recommendations of the report of the Cadbury committee on corporate governance , of which was also a member . |
| 26 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 27 | The application for an export licence was withdrawn as each leaf was now worth less than the limit of £35,000 , beyond which an export licence is required . |
| 28 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 29 | Such a mood of concern has existed now for more than a decade and seems to mirror uncertainties of role occurring elsewhere in society . |
| 30 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |