Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this , Figure 4 looks more like a pedigree of species than a pedigree of individuals , but the principle is the same . |
| 2 | Nor was he planning to turn the BBC into a ‘ publisher ’ rather than a maker of programmes . |
| 3 | Humphrey Jennings : Film Maker , Painter , Poet , 1982 ; Anthony W. Hodgkinson and Rodney E. Sheratsky , Humphrey Jennings — More than a Maker of Films , 1982 ; Mary-Lou Jennings and Charles Madge ( eds . ) , |
| 4 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 5 | It is a concrete bunker of a place , no more than a corridor of shops , a cable car station and a hotel , all indestructibly functional . |
| 6 | The wrong policy could cost you more than a pocketful of dreams . |
| 7 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 8 | What evidence there is on sett size suggest that it does n't necessarily increase with group size , and certainly the four individuals in the Brighton group would hardly seem to need a complex consisting of more than a kilometre of tunnels . |
| 9 | Now , if the phrase heavy rock means nothing more than a pile of boulders , then you may fear that what follows is not your cup of tea . |
| 10 | He believed Dene House was among those to close because of its potential high sale value rather than a lack of residents . |
| 11 | There seems no a priori reason why the intellectual collapse of the radical bourgeoisie in the early nineteenth century should necessitate a single line of avant-garde response — rather than a multiplicity of struggles , which , instead of leading irrevocably to extreme Schoenbergian individualism , might , for example , ‘ preserve ’ ( that is reuse ) older elements , to be rearticulated to the interests of new group subjects if and when they emerged . |
| 12 | ‘ They have behaved worse than a horde of Hottentots . |
| 13 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 14 | ( In European countries with industry-wide or regional agreements it is not uncommon for a union to represent less than a majority of workers within any given enterprise . ) |
| 15 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 16 | The four-point agreement follows more than a year of contacts with the Fund by Peru 's foreign debt negotiator , Abel Salinas , and is an about-turn by President Alan Garcia . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc , Rockville , Maryland , and UK-based UIS Ltd , Epsom , Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations . |
| 18 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 19 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 20 | For , large or small , the ‘ master ’ rather than the impersonal authority of the ‘ company ’ ruled the enterprise , and even the company was identified with a man rather than a board of directors . |
| 21 | This is a world where document management and revision tracking are probably more important than the finer points of typography , the ability to pull information out of the corporate data base more vital than a range of typefaces and sizes . |
| 22 | But more than a change of personalities was complicating the American assessment of the relationship with the British at this time . |
| 23 | Office rents have soared in London over the past couple of years but political factors are also significant as government departments make up more than a quarter of moves . |
| 24 | More than a quarter of hoteliers believe business will not recover from recession in the next 12 months , according to Horwath Business Review . |
| 25 | Less than a quarter of contests ever reach the final , antler pushing stage , and even then the deer stag only pushes its opponent 's antlers rather than trying to spike his softer flanks ; antlers could perhaps be used more dangerously than they are . |
| 26 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |
| 27 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 28 | Roughly a third of the population are estimated to have suffered directly from the bombing : more than a quarter of homes in Germany were damaged in some way ; fourteen million persons lost some property through bombing ; between seventeen and twenty millions were deprived at some time of electricity , gas , or water ; nearly five millions had to evacuate because of ‘ air terror ’ ; 305,000 people were killed . |
| 29 | In both New York and Kansas , where Clinton also won the Democratic primary comfortably last Tuesday , more than a quarter of voters said they would vote Perot for President if he ran . |
| 30 | Health statistics show , for example , that in the 5-11 age range , more than a quarter of children suffer from a cough in any one month . |