Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] than a [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Woman seemed less than a ghost , just a shape lying . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The new ban came less than a year after Saudi Arabia had lifted a ban imposed during the Gulf crisis on all Jordanian imports . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The knock on his studio door came less than an hour later . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Peacock scored more than a quarter of United 's goals last season — many of them from midfield . |
| 12 | The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It landed less than a yard from my feet , still beating . ’ |
| 15 | Others were less fortunate and spent more than a week exploring the delights of the Senegalese capital before completing their journey . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 18 | ‘ I spent less than a minute with him . ’ |
| 19 | Sadly , he enjoyed less than a year of his retirement before he died in February 1973 . |
| 20 | This phenomenon is even more marked in the case of the SDP/Liberal Alliance : in 1983 it achieved more than a quarter of the votes cast in the general election , yet won only 3.5% of the seats in Parliament . |
| 21 | This superb musical partnership , which began less than a year ago , is now firmly established — indeed Kieran and Frances have just completed their first album which is due for release in the New Year . |
| 22 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 23 | Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed ! |
| 24 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 25 | It became more than a family home but a working farm and , they hoped , an inspirational headquarters for their international design empire . |
| 26 | But , he said yesterday , the love and understanding of a 26-year-old woman he met less than a month ago has convinced him he should remain living life as a man . |
| 27 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 28 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |
| 29 | As many as three owned less than a pound 's worth of personal property , and only four more than £20 . |
| 30 | Up in the Pennines , nine out of ten people of Staincliffe wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire owned less than a pound 's worth of moveables . |