Example sentences of "[det] than [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time when the Hundred Years war broke out , a defender had a more than even chance of beating off an attack . |
| 2 | These larger units of text are more than just sets of sentences , and convey more meaning than the sum of the individual sentences . |
| 3 | Planning , is of course likely to be more than just identification of needs . |
| 4 | But the former lead singer for the soul group The Three Degrees ( remember ‘ When Will I See You Again' ? ) stood firm in her conviction that the development of black American cookery from plantation scraps to mainstream classics merits more than just lists of ingredients . |
| 5 | For overseas contracts , though , overseas students are more than just vectors of goodwill for the London experience . |
| 6 | Even acute fear of dentistry may be more than just fear of the drill : California dentist James Rota says that women who are most frightened of dentists are those who have been sexually molested as children . |
| 7 | However , informal repetition experiments suggest that no more than about 30% of searches contain a close match with any subject heading more than one word long . |
| 8 | Not all results are shown ; all giving a reading of more than about 30% of the white card reading are omitted . |
| 9 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 10 | More bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb . |
| 11 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 12 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 13 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 14 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 15 | Vets who cut out 10ft of his gut to cure colic on November 25 gave him a less than even chance of survival . |