Example sentences of "than [art] [det] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now common in most accounts to begin with the proviso that the designation ‘ nouveau roman ’ is merely a convenient quasi-journalistic or even marketing label attached to an otherwise heterogeneous collection of writers , sharing little other than the same publishing house at one time or another ( Editions de Minuit ) . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , Muscovites took little notice of the death among them of Uvarov , for in the atmosphere of late 1855 Granovskii and Shchepkin were dearer to their hearts than a former government minister . |
| 3 | took longer to sort than a same meaning pair like : |
| 4 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |
| 5 | The AX3 Microlight is powered by a 500 cc 2-stroke engine and seems to be no more than a few metal poles covered with canvass . |
| 6 | Since a typical Enumeration District contains about 200 households , a 10% sample of a single ED is unreliable , and the 10% data should not be used for areas smaller than a few Enumeration Districts ( Cole 1993 ) . |
| 7 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 8 | Many of the fish are of specimen size , too , with more than a few record breakers . |