Example sentences of "time [prep] [det] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had little time for more than a quick glance round the room . |
| 2 | But there was no time to admire the view , no time for more than a swift impression of airiness and light , of deep , comfortable furniture in maize-coloured linen , before she closed the door quickly . |
| 3 | His overcrowded programme allowed no time for more than the barest formalities between himself and Merrill , and his manner was coolly polite — a situation for which , she told herself , she was profoundly grateful . |
| 4 | That image of things would dominate men 's notions of space and time for more than a century . |
| 5 | I 've always been too busy building up my business to spare time for more than a few brief affairs . ’ |
| 6 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 7 | A very sticky variety clings to each new copy for an average time of more than an hour before it finally breaks free and the process can begin again . |
| 8 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 9 | NEC Corp has developed a full colour 10.4″ 2.5 lbs thin film transistor liquid crystal diode display screen based on an analogue RGB interface : NEC says that the new technology displays natural colours in the 4,096 colour range of a quality not previously possible : a high level of picture brightness is also achieved ; specifications include a 640 by 480 resolution screen with a total of 307,200 pixels and a response time of less than 40ms . |
| 10 | Looking after the ‘ tribe ’ is the number one priority , but Mary was always looking at ways of continuing her artistic leanings and it was to heraldry that she returned , this time with more than a hint of aviation to it ! |
| 11 | It was ironical that Adam , who was the owner of that big house and all that land and the contents of the house , nevertheless went down to Nunes the second time with less than a fiver in his pocket . |
| 12 | ENGLAND have two squash players in the world 's top seven for the first time in more than a decade . |
| 13 | Manager Kevin Keegan was delighted by Kristensen 's form as the 28-year-old tasted 90 minutes of first-team action for the first time in more than a year . |
| 14 | Within a few months , for the first time in more than a decade , observers began to detect a thaw in Franco-Soviet relations . |
| 15 | It was the first time in more than quarter of a century that the socialists had been returned to power . |
| 16 | Boris Yeltsin 's planned visit to Japan was postponed , for the second time in less than a year . |
| 17 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 18 | I love shopping for excellent ingredients and would rather spend time on this than anything else . |
| 19 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |