Example sentences of "have [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 2 | Inner London has less than a third of the level of nursing home provision of England as a whole and this adds to the blocking of acute beds in hospitals . |
| 3 | A child born in Denmark will live an average of 75 years and has less than a one in 100 chance of dying before age one . ’ |
| 4 | Such a premature baby has less than a 10 per cent chance of survival and a healthy life because the lungs are not fully developed . |
| 5 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 6 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 7 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |
| 8 | Willy Russell 's Liverpool-based woman-at-play film has more than a passing resemblance to Letter to Brezhnev but is none the worse for that . |
| 9 | This rare and peculiar fossil looks rather like a sea-lily without arms , and has more than a passing resemblance to a tennis racket ! |
| 10 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 11 | The latest move to supply India , a country which exploded a nuclear device in 1974 with material produced from a research reactor , typifies France 's ‘ go it alone ’ approach which has more than a hint of economic expediency in it . |
| 12 | Certainly the Springbok squad for their tour of France and England has more than a touch of the curate 's egg about it . |
| 13 | Then too , Sun has more than a touch of the ‘ not invented here ’ syndrome . |
| 14 | Such a framework has more than a passing similarity with the career structure observed by Howard Parker in his study of young delinquents in Liverpool . |
| 15 | A third party may assert that it has more than a mere interest in a certain subject , since it has a legal right81 in the subject matter of the dispute , or a right granted under a treaty between the parties . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 17 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 18 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 19 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 20 | It has had more than a century and a half to prove its worth in the demanding environments of Queensland , New South Wales and even the hot , dry north west of Western Australia . |
| 21 | However , the concert party folded before we had had more than a few ragged rehearsals , mainly because Bob 's girlfriend , a tall , bossy Waaf who fancied herself as another Vera Lynn , suddenly went all narrow-minded and decreed that if there was to be a chorus line , we were not to show our legs but to wear slacks . |
| 22 | He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep . |
| 23 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 24 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 25 | For Esteban Vicente , still busy at work in his Bridgehampton studio as he enters his ninth decade , the sweet blarings of Fame 's trumpet have always had more than a little in common with the songs of the sirens . |
| 26 | There are still countries — South Africa being one example — where the great majority of people have never had more than a very restricted right to vote , and many others in which this right has , at various times , been curtailed or abrogated . |
| 27 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 28 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 29 | What possible reasons and motives could the Patrick Meehan Committee , consisting of a Queen 's Counsel , an MP , four solicitors and myself , have had other than a belief in Meehan 's innocence and a wish therefore to clear his name ? |
| 30 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |