Example sentences of "no [det] than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Baggage and goods were handled on a sub-track level , and one of the advantages of the new arrangements was that no fewer than fifteen street level-crossings were eliminated . |
| 2 | And although he wrote no fewer than twelve String Quartets between the ages of fourteen and nineteen , as well as a set of Variations for String Quartet Op. 93 , these two are Rheinberger 's only two mature works for a medium in which he obviously felt very much at home . |
| 3 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 4 | The supermarket giant has had no fewer than four scrip issues in this period and on each occasion the number of shares held has effectively doubled . |
| 5 | Ender , 33 , is unlikely now to produce the kind of speed that helped her break no fewer than 27 world records during her distinguished career . |
| 6 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 7 | In the next forty years no fewer than 1,479 enclosure acts were passed , dealing with nearly 2½ million acres . |
| 8 | He is currently 114th , his reward for top-four finishes in the recent German and English Opens , and no fewer than 11 under-par rounds from four big tournaments during August . |
| 9 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 10 | The output of no fewer than 30 government ‘ think tanks ’ was devoted to the cost-cutting priorities of animal rearing in post-war years . |
| 11 | I made no fewer than three telephone calls . |
| 12 | But he has thrown it to the wind which will swirl round Windsor Park tonight by naming no fewer than THREE centre forwards in his side to face Latvia . |
| 13 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 14 | Heron Granges , a specialist computer insurance company , also guarantees response times within eight hours , thanks to agreements with no fewer than three maintenance companies . |
| 15 | Goal king McGaughey bagged no fewer than seven League medals in his long Linfield reign as Ulster 's No 1 striker before moving to Ards in the summer . |
| 16 | Their four regular seam bowlers — Allan Donald , Tim Munton , Gladstone Small and Dermot Reeve — took no fewer than 244 Championship wickets between them . |
| 17 | Yet it was estimated in 1967 that to cover the country no fewer than thirty-three TV transmitters would be needed at a cost then of about K12 million . |
| 18 | Parliamentary democracy , no less than one-party state democracy , is a usurpation of personal sovereignty . |
| 19 | On this basis , a data flow of no less than 1 terabyte ( i.e. 10¹2 ; bytes ) /day is anticipated by the mid-1990s . |
| 20 | When all is said and done , the modern day season ticket holder or the viewer of closed circuit television , no less than old time slave masters , have decisive effects on the destinies of sportsmen . |
| 21 | No more and no less than any man takes for service with the fleet . |
| 22 | Given that such an employee would face dismissal if that were proven , a company should face no less than severe curtailment of its operations across the North sea . |
| 23 | Some of those who attacked ministers ' devotion to the ‘ social gospel ’ were attacking a penchant for education bills , county council elections and slum clearance , but they would not have been as upset by a renewed campaign for disestablishment , which , no less than educational reform , could not be achieved without political action . |
| 24 | I am running a 1986 V8 County 90 which at 25,000 miles has no more than normal backlash in the transmission line , yet a most irritating noise has developed which can only be described as a clunk that occurs whenever I apply or lift off the throttle in any gear . |
| 25 | The Secretaryship had to be exercised in person , but the other three involved no more than complex routine duties and could be delegated . |
| 26 | A typical pack will have a capacity of 500 mAH which , in a collective pitch model employing five servos and a gyro , may have a fully charged life of only 20–25 minutes and certainly no more than 1 hour . |
| 27 | Arrange the shells on an oiled baking tray , season them and brush each shell lightly with a little oil — use no more than 1 tablespoon in all . |
| 28 | ‘ Your little green chaps are no more than that snake really , are n't they ? |
| 29 | He , no more than General Christison in Java , was able to operate in a political vacuum but at least the French in Saigon were treated as allies rather than as one-time enemies although , in the absence of sufficient numbers of Frenchmen , Japanese troops were required to fight Vietnamese who , as in Hanoi , were intent on the politics of a fait accompli . |
| 30 | Other criticisms focus on massaging of the data , in the form of simplification of ape utterances in their reporting , so as ( probably unwittingly ) to make them look more like human utterances than the hodge-podges they really are ; and re-analysis of unedited films of ‘ discussions ’ with the apes , showing just what a high proportion of the exchanges embody no more than unconscious cueing by the human experimenter , slavish imitation by the ape , or his redundant expansion and embroidery of their exchanges without commensurate amplification of information conveyed . |