Example sentences of "is [adv] [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 2 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 3 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 4 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 5 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 6 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 7 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 8 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 9 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 10 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 11 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 12 | There is ostensibly more than a passing similarity between Gedge and another famed Mancunian bedroom termite , Morrissey . |
| 13 | There is also more than an echo of Piaget 's notion of schematic development ( Ginsburg and Opper , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | It is now more than a decade since the authors of the World Conservation Strategy , an influential report by WWF , IUCN and UNEP , defined conservation not in terms of cleaning pollution or saving whales but as ‘ the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations . ’ |
| 15 | But they live in a physically impoverished environment which provides far fewer amenities than the average long-stay ward — the cost is often less than a third that of a hospital bed . |
| 16 | The Brian Nelson affair and the other cases have shown that it is often more than a perception . |
| 17 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 18 | Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day . |
| 19 | In simple terms , skin is far more than a superficial covering for the body ; it is a living , breathing organism . |
| 20 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |
| 21 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 22 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 23 | But the world of the transcendent is far more than an ecstatic journey . |
| 24 | AIDS , after all , is far more than an epidemic . |
| 25 | This may seem a rather distasteful episode , and it is undoubtedly more than a little apocryphal . |
| 26 | After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it . |
| 27 | Occupation is never more than a shorthand for allocating social class , which leaves out other key dimensions : your education , or the house you live in , for instance . |
| 28 | Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) There is alternatively a " House Buyers Report " , which is not a comprehensive survey , but is certainly more than a valuation . |