Example sentences of "than [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hell' she cried , ’ 'I used to get more than that an hour for softening them' . |
| 2 | See the tailors , shoemakers , bookbinders , gold beaters , printers , bricklayers , coatmakers , hatters , curriers , masons , whitesmiths , none of these trades receive less than 30s a week , and from that to five guineas this is all done by combination , without it their trades would be as bad as yours . |
| 3 | In some cases there are definite indications of periodicity ; thus Beta Pegasi , in the Flying Horse , has a period of about 36 days , though the range is less than half a magnitude . |
| 4 | The static torque/ rotor position characteristic repeats with a wavelength of one rotor tooth pitch , so the rotor only returns to the correct step position if it is not displaced by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 5 | The rotor oscillations increase in amplitude as successive steps are executed until the rotor lags or leads the demanded step position by more than half a rotor tooth pitch . |
| 6 | Fogdoe was more than half a second faster than any of his rivals on the deciding run , with Austrians Thomas Sykora and Hubert Strolz in second and third . |
| 7 | The offering for staff at Evertidy Furniture in Wolverhampton , West Midlands , worked out at less than half a pub measure each . |
| 8 | Very late though it is , there is a formica-clad coffee or hamburger bar still open less than half a mile away and I have enough cash in hand to buy my first food of the day and my first hot drink . |
| 9 | He sensed the growing tension in Mariana and felt her turn her head so that she could no longer see the wall of cloud less than half a mile to their left . |
| 10 | The environs of the waterfall are pleasant enough and there is no suspicion of the Peril 's dark secret unless a small opening under the overhang of the cliff alongside is noticed : this insignificant hole admits to the largest cave system in the valley , underground passages extending for more than half a mile below and far beyond the road in a succession of tight crawls and large caverns . |
| 11 | Mounds of dirt , rock and sand — little hills engulfed by dunes — blocked our view so that we could see no more than half a mile in any direction . |
| 12 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 13 | Within a matter of days some were caught more than half a mile away . |
| 14 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 15 | But less than half a mile from his home in Witney , Oxfordshire , 42-year-old Mr Adams was knocked off his bike and run over by a van . |
| 16 | The former RAF engineer died in the arms of a passing motorist less than half a mile from his home in Witney , Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | Even so , he could not see more than half a mile in the Roxburgh direction owing to a slight ridge of grass and whins . |
| 18 | The car that forced Chrissie Stone off the road was dumped outside the Underground station , less than half a mile away from the crash . ’ |
| 19 | The raiders fled empty-handed and Iris — who has n't competed in a race for 57 years — chased after them for more than half a mile . |
| 20 | The two narrows are narrow indeed — the first no more than half a mile wide and , before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 , crowded with a mass of shipping . |
| 21 | I followed the cliff path which led steeply up out of Otters ' Bay and then westward over the headland for something less than half a mile , to bring me in sight of the bay I had seen yesterday . |
| 22 | After less than half a mile you arrive at the Whealt . |
| 23 | If you leave this at the exit of ‘ San Donato ’ and turn right towards Tavernelle , after less than half a mile — along a turning on the right — you will come to the 16th century Villa Fillinelle . |
| 24 | Having found the right house in the most perfect location less than half a mile from the gates of Assisi , she set about transforming it . |
| 25 | To us , the glacier now appeared to lie more than half a mile away from the river , but scrambling across the black gravel of the terminal moraine , we were surprised to find that this rubble concealed the true icy snout . |
| 26 | They had crossed more than half a mile of open pasture without a trace of cover , expecting every moment some attack that did not come . |
| 27 | The incomparable asset of Pau is the Boulevard tea Pyrenees , which runs for more than half a mile along the southern edge of the main town , between the chateau at one end and the casino and the Parc Beaumont at the other . |
| 28 | A little more than half a mile away , on the other side of the Isle of Dogs , Ebenezer 's sister Ruth was also awake . |
| 29 | Carson 's place was only a couple of miles away , in a vastly overpriced and overcrowded strip along less than half a mile of the river east from Kew Bridge . |
| 30 | Yet the contrast that presented itself to me as Edward Thomas described it was dramatic : down in the valley less than half a mile away was a modern colliery with all the latest gadgetry of modern technology , while the hill farmers ( at least some of them ) were still in the Middle Ages — even earlier , as far as their material culture was concerned . |