Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks more than a scratch . ’ |
| 3 | True , this remedy contains more than an element of ‘ big brother ’ and it may be that it does no more than turn the criminals away from the areas covered by the cameras ' eyes . |
| 4 | He asserted that Parliament was " not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests … but … a deliberative assembly of one nation , with one interest , that of the whole — where nor local purposes , nor local prejudices ought to guide , but the general good , resulting from the general reason of the whole " ; a contention which contains more than an echo of Rousseau , ironically , since Rousseau was adamant that the nation could not be represented in the way Burke implies . |
| 5 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 6 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 7 | The ghetto-blaster lies less than a metre away from the lip of the jacuzzi . |
| 8 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 9 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 10 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 11 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 12 | He says more than a quarter of the people at the base were American . |
| 13 | Pan Am says more than a sale is involved ; it has a new marketing deal with United that will help prop up its other operations . |
| 14 | At just £5.99 the Blitzer costs less than a can of airbrush propellant ! |
| 15 | Tap water which costs less than a penny a litre is being filtered , treated and then sold for more than fifty times that much . |
| 16 | Get it out out the tap and it costs less than a penny a litre . |
| 17 | A round of bullets costs less than a packet of cigarettes . |
| 18 | The list includes more than a quarter of the noctuid moths and ichneumonid wasps on the British list , a third or more of the hoverflies ( Syrphidae ) , butterflies and bumblebees , more than half the Serphidae ( also wasps ) , and six cf the seven social wasps ( Vespidae ) . |
| 19 | Sketching out the good and bad side of human nature … cartoons get a fleeting glance in daily papers … but for many there 's a more serious side … the cartoonists work raises more than a smile . |
| 20 | ROWLAND S HOWARD These Immortal Souls ' Australian exile recounts more than a decade on the musical edge … |
| 21 | In some places , this living layer of fertility exists less than an inch ( 2.5cm ) deep , in other places at a depth of several feet , but in relation to the overall dimensions of Earth , it is very , very thin . |
| 22 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 23 | ‘ If you try to tell someone one night he went to bed in one county and woke up in another and he was no longer a Yorkshireman , he gets more than a bit upset . ’ |
| 24 | I collect my things and pack , and it takes less than a minute . |
| 25 | That takes less than a microsecond ! |
| 26 | And every Saab dealer is now bound to down tools and help you out without prior booking if the job takes less than an hour . |
| 27 | This means that the breeding cycle takes more than a year to complete , with the result that the birds are unable to breed every year . |
| 28 | It takes more than a bowl of water to get rid of Jesus Christ seeking you out to follow him and to receive him . |
| 29 | It takes more than a shoestring to keep an essential component of the economy strong , say the Met , and other institutions concur . |
| 30 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |