Example sentences of "than [art] [num] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 2 | If any member has any pictures of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , other than the two sets of four photos that the Society has issued , we would be very grateful for details . |
| 3 | These were more numerous and more complicated than the two groups of conformist and non-conformist boys identified by Willis . |
| 4 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 5 | This demand system can be derived by maximizing the following aggregate profits function Γ for farmers with respect to Q 1 and Q 2 : where the aggregate production function for farmers is defined as : It is important to note that , for simplicity , the aggregate production function is of quadratic form and assumed to be homothetic , no inputs other than the two forms of fertilizers are considered , and the farmers ' output prices have been normalized to one . |
| 6 | The process takes much longer than the two years of ‘ aftercare ’ written into many restoration contracts . |
| 7 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 8 | A covering letter also expresses concern that a government agency had shipped 500 litres of plutonium nitrate through the Minch recently and that the pollution caused by such a cargo would be much worse than the 85,000 tonnes of light oil spilt by the Braer off Shetland . |
| 9 | TM pixel values are recorded on a 0–255 scale rather than the 0–63 scale of the MSS . |
| 10 | Will he now confirm that one side effect of the appalling poll tax is that more than a million citizens of this country have not registered to vote ? |
| 11 | The Israeli potash and bromine works at the southern end produce more than a million tonnes of these minerals a year . |
| 12 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 13 | Tarmac , the company behind £11m. worth of development , says more than a million tonnes of material has been removed and 500,000 tonnes of stones brought in . |
| 14 | More than half the programs we write at Bell Labs contain more than a million lines of code . ’ |
| 15 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 16 | The H-bomb , with an explosive capacity of more than a million tons of TNT , had fallen into the Atlantic Ocean off southern Spain . |
| 17 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 18 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 19 | It means laying more than a million miles of underground cables in our streets at a cost of £6 BILLION . |
| 20 | This would be rather difficult , however : the black hole would have the mass of a mountain compressed into less than a million millionth of an inch , the size of the nucleus of an atom ! |
| 21 | Like the Brown University Corpus , the ‘ Lancaster Corpus ’ would consist of more than a million words of various kinds of English . |
| 22 | ‘ Two of the main Siberian pipelines pass through this station which has storage facilities on site for more than a million barrels of crude oil . |
| 23 | If one goes to answer your question , to the top end of the range being put before you , the effect will be to release probably more than a thousand acres of greenfield land er for housing development purposes . |
| 24 | In the meantime more than a thousand miles of rivers had been made navigable , but these made no noticeable change in the landscape . |
| 25 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 26 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 27 | More than a hundred members of the legislature are simultaneously part of the executive and they provide a large phalanx of obedient support for cabinet initiatives . |
| 28 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’ |