Example sentences of "have [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The girl comes to see that she has less than the boy , and has been castrated already . |
| 5 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 6 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 9 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 10 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 11 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 12 | What possible reasons and motives could the Patrick Meehan Committee , consisting of a Queen 's Counsel , an MP , four solicitors and myself , have had other than a belief in Meehan 's innocence and a wish therefore to clear his name ? |
| 13 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 14 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 15 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 16 | Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment . |
| 17 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 18 | By the time they returned , Ingrid had less than a week left , and she was becoming agitated . |
| 19 | So if you 've more than a mite of sense you 'll point your base somewheres else . |
| 20 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 21 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 22 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 23 | Much of James 's statement had more than a modicum of truth . |
| 24 | She gave her mother fifteen shillings for her keep , and had more than a pound left to spend on herself . |
| 25 | Their winner , an own goal from Nick Henry in the 13th minute , had more than a shade of good fortune about it . |
| 26 | Actually , I had more than a hand in it ; I designed all of Crate 's new tube line , even though it does n't have my name on it . |
| 27 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 28 | These first three Muftis of the capital , as well as their immediate successors , never had more than a priority of rank over those of the provinces . " |
| 29 | He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal : he had a maid bring him beer . |
| 30 | Now , after some shrewd scavving and a touch of inventive accountancy , she had more than the price of the pudding . |