Example sentences of "[det] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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31 An oil tank behind with a three foot bund wall all around in which more than a foot of mobile oil stands .
32 It fears that the ¥200 billion school project will amount to little more than a bail-out of struggling Japanese computer makers — such as NEC , which made its first ever consolidated loss , of ¥44 billion , in the year to March .
33 The exhibition therefore is nothing more than a rerun of Celant 's European power-broking of the lat 1960s , a European and specifically a Milanese challenge to America 's claim to the avant-garde which nevertheless included many successful ( male ) American artists of the period .
34 Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery .
35 He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression .
36 WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC
37 ‘ We estimate they brought more than a kilo of heroin into France . ’
38 British Coal , one of the few companies still nationalised , has the unenviable task of proving to its customers that it is more than a dinosaur of the industrial revolution , slouching towards privatisation and a slow demise .
39 Sasbach is really no more than a scatter of houses , a couple of shops , a garage and a church set down in the middle of vineyards and orchards .
40 Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most …
41 Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension .
42 The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output .
43 Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender .
44 The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris .
45 Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records .
46 I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour .
47 The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger .
48 Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months .
49 I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather .
50 These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths .
51 They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged .
52 Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence .
53 The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes .
54 It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn .
55 The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US .
56 Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences .
57 Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago .
58 The tidal range in the Caribbean sea off the north coast of Panama is very modest — no more than a couple of feet .
59 Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game .
60 ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up .
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