Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [det] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade union rates so jealously guarded in the inter-war period by the Association became little more than the minimum wage of the 1950s , producing salaries insufficient to attract the ambitious tour operator and dynamic advertising manager and leading in turn to a failure to compete effectively . |
| 2 | However , it cost little more than the price of the land — a real bargain , ’ she parodied in a bitter little voice . |
| 3 | Secondly the archive base became much more than the database ( or rather its constituent tables ) . |
| 4 | The second map ( figure 5.14 ) shows the geography of the Department of Defense 's spending on salaries ( for civilians and service personnel together ) , and indicates that the great majority of the southern States ( with the exceptions of Louisiana and Arkansas ) were substantial beneficiaries , whereas northeastern States got much less than the national average per capita expenditure in this category . |
| 5 | When the king 's agents bought the wool it fetched much less than the expected price and the scheme collapsed , leaving resentment amongst the producers , the lesser merchants who had not participated in the scheme , and those who had been paid in Dordrecht Bonds . |
| 6 | Jason Burke discovered much more than the clichés of Paris , and decided that a short visit need not be too expensive . |
| 7 | In a much governed kingdom like England royal administration included control over the sheriff and other local officers ; in some kingdoms it included little more than the issuing of charters and the collecting of somewhat meagre taxes . |
| 8 | They reached mass audiences , whom their ‘ messages ’ frequently interested much more than the news or the programmes that the advertisements indirectly helped pay for . |
| 9 | But the western railway dreams encompassed much more than the settling of immigrants or the taming of native peoples ( throughout the world railways were credited with this ‘ pacificatory ’ role ) . |
| 10 | Regalism can best be defined as Erastianism and it represented little more than the modernization and systematization of the traditional claim of the crown to control what it considered the temporal aspects of church government . |
| 11 | Ramsey was unusual in that to him the priest 's ordination meant much more than the deacon 's ordination . |
| 12 | Nothing exemplified this more than the campaign for public economy which shook the government in 1921 . |