Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 2 | is the most common way to buy Derby cheese , which is a great pity as a mature , plain Derby is stronger than a one-year-old Cheddar , but very difficult to find . |
| 3 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |
| 4 | The whole caboodle , heavy and cumbersome , looked as though it might be more at home in a grand hotel than a north London flat : precisely the image the manufacturer is trying to get across . |
| 5 | For more than a year Lorne and I had struggled towards this moment and , contrary to all the laws of psychology , we were finding that the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations . |
| 6 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 7 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 8 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 9 | Despite a tug of interest he moved away , and after a little less than a minute Alison returned . |
| 10 | One critic thought it ironic that this building ‘ of which the aim was so obviously beauty , should have achieved so startling an ugliness ’ , but after more than a century Swanage would hardly seem the same place without it . |
| 11 | FOR more than a decade Sainsbury 's has been top of the shop parade . |
| 12 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |
| 13 | A two-inch Coolie Loach , for instance , is actually much smaller than a two-inch Rosy Barb . |