Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | From six members , the company has grown in less than four years to a staff of more than 90 , and a base of more than 200 installed systems . |
| 2 | Therefore the increase in numbers to a hundred , for this particular rule , seems to be a logical move , as a branch with less than fifty would be unrepresentative of the G M B both from a democracy point of view and an administration point of view where cost plays an enormo important role . |
| 3 | The hospital is the largest on Merseyside , with more than 4,200 staff , over 1,300 beds , and a budget of more than £70m . |
| 4 | CITES , which is run on a budget of less than $3m a year , is facing a financial crisis . |
| 5 | — a reduction of more than 30 per cent . |
| 6 | According to latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures , average October to March sales of the Sunday Express have stepped up to 1,666,993 this year from 1,617,129 in the equivalent period last year , a rise of more than three per cent . |
| 7 | Another milestone was passed in 1989/90 with more than 200,000 candidates registering for one or more modules for that year ; indeed the growth in the number of candidates has been so strong that it is likely to pass 225,000 this year , a rise of more than 15% . |
| 8 | The latest crime figures for Oxfordshire show a rise of more than thirty per cent . |
| 9 | The latest crime figures for Oxfordshire show a rise of more than thirty per cent . |
| 10 | The sentencer regarded the case as an exceptional one The Court considered that it had many exceptional features which would allow a sentencer to reduce the sentence which would otherwise have been imposed , but it was seldom in such a case that a sentence of less than seven years would be appropriate . |
| 11 | These were regarded as relatively minor , and the sentences reflected this ; only exceptional violence justified a sentence of more than 18 months imprisonment . |
| 12 | All this suggests that the allowance system was a response to rather than a cause of the relief burden . |
| 13 | On the basis of such calculations John Ellis , head of theory at CERN , offers two-to-one odds that the Higgs has a mass of less than 200 billion electron volts ( 200GeV , 0.2TeV ) — or , if there is no simple Higgs , that some other mechanism that performs its function can be found at around that energy . |
| 14 | When the company became a founder member of ICI in 1926 the enterprise , launched in 1873 with less than £20,000 , had a capitalization of more than £18 million . |
| 15 | He was fascinated by the corset which gave her a youthful figure and set about reproducing it.In 1968 , they invented the Wonderbra which has been a best-seller for more than 20 years . |
| 16 | CAPENHURST 's sports and Social Club committee has presented a cheque for more than £330 to the Good shepherd Hospice in Chester . |
| 17 | If one attempted to present a computer with more than one program at a time , it would be unable to deal with the situation and would indicate that an error had been made . |
| 18 | This year is the 10th anniversary of the half-marathon , which is one again expected to attract a field of more than 1000 , with a strong challenge to John Boyes ' 1984 course record of 1:06:09 in prospect . |
| 19 | The hitherto ruling Croatian League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change came second in a field of more than 30 political parties [ the full results will be published in the next News Digest ] . |
| 20 | The company is providing insulation for trains , a contract worth more than £150,000 per year . |
| 21 | a creditor for more than £750 has served on the company a demand for the sum due , and the company has for three weeks failed to pay the debt ; |
| 22 | Chronic under-resourcing of the Home Office 's Asylum Division , and the long-ignored deficiencies of the existing procedures , have resulted in a backlog of more than 60,000 cases . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend will be aware that as a result of the debt crisis , over the past few years the ECGD has accumulated a deficit of more than £4 billion which is , of course , a deficit that falls to the taxpayer . |
| 24 | In the Midlands , the Tories lost Nuneaton , where Labour overturned a majority of more than 5,500 . |
| 25 | Approval of the IVA requires a majority of more than 75% , and voting rights are based on the value of the debts . |
| 26 | At the 1928 Trades Union Congress Cook and the other left-wing members were defeated by a majority of more than two to one . |
| 27 | He declared that if either Protection or the capital levy were submitted to the Commons , they would be defeated by a majority of more than 200 . |
| 28 | ‘ I never remember a fight with more than two people involved with the rest of us encouraging them usually , holding their coats until the police stepped in to break it up , and these scuffles normally had nothing to do with loyalty to rival teams . ’ |
| 29 | EARLY FETAL DEATH — Death of a fetus of less than 20 weeks of gestation . |
| 30 | They will be pressing for a settlement of more than 10 per cent in what will be the most severe test of the Government 's inflation policy . |