Example sentences of "from [det] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Etching times may vary from less than a minute to over half an hour . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 3 | As Provincial Editor I handled correspondents ’ news reports from more than a score of outlying communities and our Times-Herald ‘ reporter ’ for the Briercrest area was a Mrs Edna Jacques . |
| 4 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 5 | Real time evidence from more than a century back ( Patterson 1860 ) confirmed that the pattern had once affected the /a/ system in many more linguistic environments , and apparent time evidence obtained during the pilot study reflected this change ; for example one eighteen-year-old man normally produced the form [ käp ] ‘ cap ’ , in contrast with his mother 's habitual pronunciation [ kΕp ] . |
| 6 | That came from more than a few crossed twigs and dry leaves . |
| 7 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |