Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [det] than a " 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 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 7 | Much of the attraction of NVOCC carriage is that it offers discounted rates , especially for less than a full container load of cargo . |
| 8 | The Khmer Rouge does not want to rock the boat , having waited patiently for more than a decade for the Vietnamese to leave . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . ) |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 16 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He says the tools of the trade have changed little in more than a 1,000 years . |
| 19 | Such a mood of concern has existed now for more than a decade and seems to mirror uncertainties of role occurring elsewhere in society . |
| 20 | Thus , although W. R. T. Skinner of the Yorkshire Electric Power Company was tarred with the company 's extreme anti-union reputation ( and not wanted by Citrine or the new Yorkshire Board ) the chairman-designate of the South Eastern Area Board was able to persuade Gaitskell to make him his deputy chairman , a position in which Skinner served loyally and efficiently for more than a decade , before himself succeeding to the chairmanship of that Board . |
| 21 | By car , take the A351 Swanage road south of Wareham , turning left after less than a mile . |
| 22 | It was important that government and the European Commission looked beyond the narrow confines of the current legalistic approach and took full account of the practical consequences of this onslaught on the system which has served the Community and world trade so well for more than a century , he said . |
| 23 | Help has been available here for less than a month , but already word has spread and swelled the starving population from 10,000 to 30,000 . |
| 24 | Although it has been grown here for more than a century , the low-growing variety A. dioicus Kneiffii is , surprisingly , less well known . |
| 25 | Various visitors are exempt : students here for more than a six-month course , EEC residents and those from countries who give UK residents free treatment ( reciprocal arrangement nations ) . |
| 26 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 27 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 28 | It was Jack Cohen , founder of Tesco , who invented the ‘ Pile it high , sell it cheap ’ philosophy that changed British shopping dramatically in less than a decade . |
| 29 | ‘ Look here , Stevens , the first of the delegates will be arriving here in less than a fortnight . ’ |
| 30 | A relatively high proportion of those in other types of home were there for less than a month . |