Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [det] than " in BNC.

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1 Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor .
2 In our case , by starting two small congregations which began with fewer than forty , the total number of those attending on Sunday mornings grew from around 200 to around 400 as a result of this strategy .
3 Grants for ploughing grassland and cereal deficiency payments made barley more profitable than sheep , numbers of which fell by more than half between 1926 and 1954 .
4 A change of policy was adopted which resulted in more than half the staff working in areas of economic importance .
5 Shoved into a seatette by a hostess who had been trained not to calm and charm passengers but to harm them and occasionally embalm them , I quickly settled into what would become my life for what seemed like more than a lifetime .
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