Example sentences of "have [det] than a [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 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 5 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Thus nowadays a company may have less than a decade in which to recoup its investment . |
| 14 | If not — and those papers had less than a quarter of the total circulation — it was broadsheet . |
| 15 | By the time they returned , Ingrid had less than a week left , and she was becoming agitated . |
| 16 | So if you 've more than a mite of sense you 'll point your base somewheres else . |
| 17 | ‘ He also had more than a crush , ’ Vitor declared . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 20 | Much of James 's statement had more than a modicum of truth . |
| 21 | She gave her mother fifteen shillings for her keep , and had more than a pound left to spend on herself . |
| 22 | Their winner , an own goal from Nick Henry in the 13th minute , had more than a shade of good fortune about it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . " |
| 26 | ‘ And you , no doubt , have more than a modicum ! ’ she snapped , infuriated by his bland arrogance . |
| 27 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 28 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 29 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |