Example sentences of "than [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
2 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
3 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
4 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
5 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |