Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 2 | It cost less than a fiver a head — and there was n't a plate broken all night ! |
| 3 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 4 | But nobody wants the culprits caught more than the victim . |
| 5 | The Mason 's voice shouted stronger than the rest , ‘ Let me in ! |
| 6 | The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 7 | In its centre , etched finer than the lines surrounding it , were two lines of bead-like figures spiralling about each other , forming the double-helix of heredity , symbol of the Dispersionists . |
| 8 | The old system had its flaws , but nevertheless , it seemed fairer than the poll tax . |
| 9 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 10 | His attitude towards me was one of dumb , doglike devotion , which I found tiresome , but in the circumstances he seemed better than no boyfriend at all . |
| 11 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
| 14 | A recent survey of the plight of peasants by China 's Economic Daily showed that taxes and fees consumed less than a quarter of their average incomes , compared with the 35-40% Mrs Fu claims . |
| 15 | ‘ He ate more than the carpenter though , ’ said Tweedledee . |
| 16 | As Winston Churchill put it : ‘ The French suffered more than the defence need suffer by their valiant and obstinate retention of particular positions . |
| 17 | Having had only two weeks in which to complete the work , Mr Chettle burned more than the midnight oil to finish it in time . |
| 18 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
| 19 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 20 | The knock on his studio door came less than an hour later . |
| 21 | I was wearing a shirt of green silk loose round the wrists and my green linen culottes — I had found they creased less than a skirt when sitting in a coach . |
| 22 | What has happened is a swings-and-roundabouts operation , whereby last year pensioners received more than the cost of living that they had incurred , whereas this year they will receive less . |
| 23 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 24 | The ladies seemed slower than the men to start post-war golf and it was November 1949 before they played any competition . |
| 25 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
| 26 | The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent . |
| 27 | In the extreme case , a consumer who bought a one-bar electric fire for thirty shillings and paid less than a penny per hour for the electricity at peak time , imposed costs on the Electricity Boards of at least £60 for the kW of power station capacity needed to meet the demand . |
| 28 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 29 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 30 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |