Example sentences of "there [be] [adv] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern Germany there are more than a hundred spas offering the ‘ cure ’ , and programmes of hydrotherapy are taken once or twice a year by millions of Germans . |
| 2 | There are more than a hundred variables that go to make up this initial decision . |
| 3 | A world of gently impending walls and grades of French & Brigand d'Amour and Symphonie du Nouveau Monde are said by my partner Johny Adams to be excellent 7as , but there are more than a dozen others ( up to 8b ) to try . |
| 4 | The carrot-shaped Attic peninsula dangles into the Aegean towards the Cyclades islands ; there are more than a hundred miles of hospitable Attic coastline , with plenty of good harbours from Skala Oropou in the north-east , past Laurion , just mentioned , round Sounion with its dockyards . |
| 5 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 6 | There are more than a hundred and fifty thousand heart attacks in your country every year . |
| 7 | , . There are more than a hundred thousand stroke victims in your country every year . |
| 8 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 9 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 10 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 11 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 12 | Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering . |
| 13 | There were more than a thousand roses arranged in his suite . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 15 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 16 | In 1988/89 , a milestone was passed when , for the first time , there were more than a million module enrolments in a single year . |
| 17 | There 's less than a thousand pounds left . ’ |
| 18 | There was less than a yard between the beds . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but Edwin told me once that there was less than a dozen pictures altogether . |
| 20 | The public , of course , had only the word of the press to guide them , and although there was more than a germ of truth in what the tabloids reported , this was by no means the first autumn in which the Prince had spent weeks without his wife and children . |
| 21 | And there was more than a smack of sympathy for terrorism in a call by a leading Fundi for a ‘ broad show of unity ’ with a group which shot dead two policemen during a demonstration at Frankfurt airport . |
| 22 | There was more than a hint of weary resignation in his reply . |
| 23 | There was more than a touch of class disdain in their attitude , but it also signified a political distance , an understanding that the parliamentary representatives had softer views and a broader idea of their responsibilities than the mere enactment of their supporters ' prejudices . |
| 24 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 25 | There was more than a hint of imminent violence in every word , and thinly veiled intimidation in every syllable . |
| 26 | And there was more than a hint , throughout the speech , that education was primarily instrumental , not a good in itself . |
| 27 | Admittedly there was more than a hint of urban overcrowding two doors away from William at no. 21 , where a glove cutter , a walnut-veneer repairer and a book finisher were living with their families — but that was exceptional . |
| 28 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |
| 29 | It seemed to him that in her gentle gaze there was more than a hint of despair , and it grieved him . |
| 30 | It was Phillips 's 13th minute shot which allowed the Canaries to close in on the leaders , although there was more than a slice of luck about it as the ball hit Nick Henry before bouncing over the stranded Oldham keeper Paul Gerrard . |