Example sentences of "[coord] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their games are , in fact , nothing more or less than a rehearsal prior to the performance of the activities which are the serious business of all the members of the Gikuyu tribe . |
| 2 | The commissions are to strive to ensure that no constituency varies from this quota by more or less than a quarter of it . |
| 3 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 4 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Currently sport occupies a quarter of the BBC 's own production and 17 per cent of its total output , though the fees for broadcasting have risen by as much or more than a thousandfold for certain sports like tennis and golf . |
| 7 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 8 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 9 | With risers of nor more than a foot , it will put more interest into the garden than twice the planting in the plain . |
| 10 | About 70 per cent of new entrants were over twenty-one , half of whom lacked two A levels , and fewer than a quarter were school-leavers with these qualifications or their equivalent . |
| 11 | If you are female and more than a stone overweight , but have already been dieting and have lost a stone or more on any other slimming method . |
| 12 | Rose of Lima 's mystical marriage to Jesus , his visits to her , her direct sense of his immediate and corporeal presence , was understood by her and her contemporaries as a direct reward , and more than a compensation , for the violence of her own purification . |
| 13 | Brooks Brothers ' past success was based on the personal touch and more than a soupcon of snobbery . |
| 14 | This was in turn succeeded by a Vietnamese-backed administration in 1979 , headed by the Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea , which failed to secure widespread international recognition and more than a decade later had not yet established effective control of the entire national territory . |
| 15 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 16 | Kate , hurt and more than a bit shattered under his look of acute dislike , felt she had to try to justify her actions . |
| 17 | I 've been a fool and more than a fool . |
| 18 | Regarding the Red Lion lunch , the town searched its soul , and more than a century later was still justifying the inedible meal . |
| 19 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 20 | During this time we organized two national conferences for students with disabilities and more than a handful of steadily more accessible conferences for lesbians and gays . |
| 21 | Certainly he came under such guidance from within his family which clashed with his own predilections , for his varsity life seems to have been plagued by vocational uncertainty and more than a touch of its weakening indifference . |
| 22 | Leith supposed she must still be feeling shaken at being grabbed at by Alec Ardis , and more than a touch bruised by her dismissal , and the unfairness of it . |
| 23 | The smile was still there , but behind it now was a hint of trouble , and more than a hint of tiredness . |
| 24 | A fruit and vegetable mixture with a delicately balanced flavour and more than a hint of summer . |
| 25 | They believed that in his teaching and life , God had ‘ visited his people ’ and sent a prophet and more than a prophet , an example and teacher of the way of truth and righteousness surpassing John the Baptist ; the ‘ Messiah ’ or anointed leader of ancient expectation . |
| 26 | More than a year since they had last spoken , and more than a week since he had last examined his memory of those meetings . |
| 27 | Their lodgings lay almost in the shadow of the Stefansdom , the great cathedral dominating the centre of the city , and less than a mile from the Theatre an der Wien . |
| 28 | Issuing from the loch is the River Arkaig , crossing a narrow strip of land and less than a mile in length before entering Loch Lochy . |
| 29 | That same night , at that same moment , and less than a mile from the Zoo , one other living creature was thinking of Minch . |
| 30 | At present north Belfast and Newtownabbey contain less than five per cent of the office space in Greater Belfast : much less than is contained in the small area around the university and less than a quarter of that found in east Belfast . |