Example sentences of "[det] than [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 2 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 4 | These were places where at the beginning of the century there was no more than a Mechanics ' Institute or a Lit. and Phil. ; and these new institutions were more oriented to science than the ancient ones , and committed on the German model to research . |
| 5 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 6 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 7 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 8 | The Russians were even prepared to pay Khalin a £7,000 bonus — more than a year 's wages to a Russian footballer . |
| 9 | In little more than a year 's time the forest will be gone and there 'll be farms in its place . ’ |
| 10 | At 31 Luc Niholt comes to Swindon with more than a decade 's experience in the Dutch Premier League … a spell in Switzerland … and three years at Motherwell where he won a Scottish Cup winners medal . |
| 11 | Looking backwards , the ways of the men and women of the countryside in the mid-nineteenth century seem fixed in an ancient tradition changing , if at all , at no more than a snail 's pace . |
| 12 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 13 | Pleasure can be no more than a gourmet 's appreciation for delicacies , whereas a happy person can readily settle for a much simpler diet . |
| 14 | Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real . |
| 15 | It was barely more than a flash impression and the man was turning and the light was n't at all good ; and besides , he pretty much resembled a pig anyway , so the effect was probably no more than a moment 's mistake . |
| 16 | The present occupant may say ‘ Oh well , I let old Mrs Smith walk through my garden and down the sideway when she needs to ’ and regard it as no more than a neighbours ' agreement . |
| 17 | Anna stood up facing him , with no more than a hand 's breadth between them . |
| 18 | Add in Edith Cresson 's political affiliation , plus her deserved reputation for dirigisme , and the freshly coined sobriquet ‘ Edithatcher ’ seems to be nothing more than a phrase-monger 's fancy . |
| 19 | Driver Helen Challoner who was passed by bike and car estimated their speed at around a hundred mills an hour and said there was no more than a car 's length between them . |
| 20 | At one time it was assumed that the best approach was one of stealth and caution , particularly as the most productive place to fish was invariably no more than a rod 's length away from your own bank . |
| 21 | We should not go too far and argue that the alleged conflict between the monied and landed interests was nothing more than a propagandist 's fiction . |
| 22 | A first glance at the Corrado suggests that the stubby , two-plus-very-small-two coupe is one of the least practical cars on the market , particularly as the compact dimensions also limit luggage accommodation to little more than a week 's family shopping . |
| 23 | Some physicians devalue dietary therapy for Type 2 diabetes by either commencing oral therapy concomitantly with diet or by giving diet alone no more than a month 's trial . |
| 24 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 25 | Yet our strength is more than an army 's . |
| 26 | The second game in the three-match one-day series , reduced from four after the first was downgraded to a friendly , was suspended after little more than an hour 's play . |
| 27 | Nenna had no more than an animal 's sense of direction and distance , but it seemed to her that the right thing to do would be to try to reach the City , then , once she got to Blackfriars , she knew where the river was , and though that would be Lambeth Reach or King 's Reach , a long way downstream of the boats , still , once she had got to the river she would be on the way home . |
| 28 | If his body jerked when he was struck again , and fatally , it was no more than an instant 's convulsion . |
| 29 | When they were gone and he was alone with the field supervisor , Bergson came across and stood there , no more than an arm 's length from the man . |
| 30 | They ignored each other in death , though sometimes they crouched no more than an arm 's reach away from each other , even touching as they slipped on the ice . |