Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be rather difficult , however : the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch , the size of the nucleus of an atom ! |
| 2 | Because we will only have erm less than a dozen project coordinators at |
| 3 | SCOTLAND 's preparations for the crucial World Cup qualifying tie against Malta at Ibrox on Wednesday bordered on the farcical yesterday when Rangers ' Richard Gough and Stuart McCall were forced to withdraw from Andy Roxburgh 's squad and Ally McCoist was given less than a 50-50 chance of playing . |
| 4 | As a result of the Pilot Study , it was decided to proceed with a seven day diary rather than a one day diary , but that a methodological component should be built into the Survey to monitor the quality of the data . |
| 5 | There is an argument for retaining a four mile annulus for the area of search for the new settlement rather than a two mile , because of the rigidity which at present applies to the distance of the outer boundary of the greenbelt from York City Centre . |
| 6 | Brian Thomas Jackson , of Danek Motors , Darlington , admitted three charges of selling the Austin Montego as a 1.6 rather than a 1.3 engine . |
| 7 | Er the second reason that we would suggest this to the panel is that it is actually er used by OPCAS , the three year average is used by OPCAS rather than an eight year average . |
| 8 | TM pixel values are recorded on a 0–255 scale rather than the 0–63 scale of the MSS . |
| 9 | The six cylinder engine is 6 inches longer than a four cylinder and will not fit a 4 cylinder chassis without a great deal of modification , but a 6 cylinder , 3-litre car engine will fit a 6 cylinder Land Rover and made a good conversion . |
| 10 | Some never get further than the nine railway termini which connect the capital to every part of the former Soviet Union . |
| 11 | This carried the law further than the 1967 Act because any term of imprisonment ( rather than five years minimum ) was now to be enough . |
| 12 | Only three Surrey batsmen scored more than a thousand championship runs last year — Darren Bicknell , Graham Thorpe and David Ward . |
| 13 | " Well , when my grandfather went , more than a thousand buffalo were sacrificed , and the death-village , which was twice as big as this , was completely burned down . |
| 14 | MORE THAN a thousand peace campaigners crowded into Trinity College , Dublin , last night to spell out one of the Irish capital 's most eloquent protests against IRA terrorism . |
| 15 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 16 | And more than a thousand security men guarding the outer shell alone . |
| 17 | The John Lennon hit ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations world-wide . |
| 18 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 19 | In 1988/89 , a milestone was passed when , for the first time , there were more than a million module enrolments in a single year . |
| 20 | More than a million working days are lost every year through smoking-related diseases . |
| 21 | The report , Forests Foregone : The European Community 's Trade in Tropical Timbers and the Destruction of the Forests , reveals that more than a hundred logging and timber processing companies owned or backed by European firms are operating in West and Central Africa . |
| 22 | — — — The programme described faulty workmanship in a number of new timber-frame homes following a survey of more than a hundred building sites . |
| 23 | No more than a hundred pound . |
| 24 | According to the London Times ( 3 November 1987 ) , at that time more than a hundred party members were under investigation , and scores more had been arrested . |
| 25 | It was n't clear who was pedalling whose bike as more than a hundred mountain cyclists advanced in a humming phalanx of brightly coloured jerseys from the tiny square in Llanwrtyd Wells , smallest town in Britain . |
| 26 | More than a hundred enemy horsemen had arrived from the Levenmouth landing two hours before noon . |
| 27 | The TLP was the most economical of more than a dozen development schemes under consideration . |
| 28 | More than a dozen CASE tool vendors such as Cadre and Centerline have already voiced their support . |
| 29 | Grinsell notes this tradition associated with more than a dozen stone circles from Cornwall to Scotland . |
| 30 | This is a Certificate which can be taken in English and any one of more than a dozen Community Languages . |