Example sentences of "than a [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.

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1 Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts .
2 I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school .
3 Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read .
4 The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club .
5 And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband .
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