Example sentences of "[det] than the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
2 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
3 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
4 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
5 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
6 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
7 | BRAINTREE District Council 's former direct labour organisation has put in a bid to reroof 27 houses which is £150,000 more than the lowest tender . |
8 | In relation to primary education , they found considerable variation , with the most generous authority spending 70 per cent more than the lowest authority . |
9 | Gilman Mr vice chairman could be the real reason … when building the East Stand the contract went to GMI who bid 2m more than the lowest bidder . |
10 | Scots spend £7.40 a week on tobacco , more than 50pc more than the lowest region , the south-east of England , which spends just £4.50 . |
11 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
12 | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer . |
13 | If you wish to write more than the simplest assembler code programs for the Z88 , you will need a considerable amount of technical information about the machine . |
14 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
15 | Few of the newcomers know any Hebrew and few have more than the vaguest idea about Israel . |
16 | He knows the routine , he appreciates the need , if without relishing it , he is too much the practised professional to show more than the briefest irritation . |
17 | At home , on both wings of her Cabinet , are ministers who regard green politics as no more than the latest fad ; the election will not be won by fighting on the beaches , in the air , and in the green belts , but once again in the pockets of the people , is their view . |
18 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
19 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |