Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 2 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 3 | ‘ County ’ men were transferred around at short intervals , while we were static in the city , never moving more than a mile or so between the three divisions to undertake real ‘ city work ’ . |
| 4 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 5 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 6 | An answer can only be given in the kind of perspective which the processes of East-West reconciliation and arms control may , in any case , create : a perspective in which the strategic factors progressively diminish in importance , until the 19 Soviet divisions now stationed in the GDR have no more significance than a knight or bishop stranded on a square of a chessboard which no longer figures in the game . |
| 7 | One thing you will notice at times when you are watching the barbel is the extraordinary way they flip belly-upwards to take food that is more than a foot or so off bottom . |
| 8 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 9 | You could n't make trenches because if you dug down more than a foot or so it would fill up straight away with water . |
| 10 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 11 | Being the master — and comprehensive underminer — of so many styles has left Mason free to identify wholly with none of them ; style has become one of the objects , rather than a subject or a medium , or his music . |
| 12 | The next chapter examines the governmental context of Charles 's fiscal and monetary methods : his imitation of late-Roman emperors was something more than a charade or a figleaf for impotence . |
| 13 | This may be linked to : ( a ) structures of the subject being taught ; ( b ) progression in the number of components of the subject pupils may be expected to have learned in the course of their instruction ; ( c ) the degree of difficulty of typical test items ; ( d ) sequences which correspond to the teaching approaches of the designers of a graded assessment scheme ; 4 all of the items in a test are at a similar or the same level of difficulty ; 5 tests are intended to be taken only when pupils are ready for them ; 6 performance on tests is described in terms of " pass ' and " fail " , rather than a mark or grade . |
| 14 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 15 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 16 | MRS is most likely to be caused by an airborne virus , rather than a bacterium or agent like that which causes BSE . |
| 17 | Right then you suspected he was more to those Apaches than a friend or a boss . |
| 18 | In the wild clownfish seldom stray more than a metre or so from their anemone and are therefore good aquarium subjects , finding no difficultly in settling down in the confines of the average home system . |
| 19 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 20 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 21 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 22 | There were walls , no more than a pace or two either side of him . |
| 23 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |
| 24 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 25 | Does n't want to get caught , probably been in prison before , may even be on a suspended sentence and if they get caught they 're going to go erm in prison for about more than a year or so . |
| 26 | Little wonder that few of them , over the past decade , have lasted for more than a year or two . |
| 27 | If he is drunken and disillusioned , owns a taxi or spends most of his time chasing higher academic qualifications with the express view of escaping from the job he is doing ( and all this happens very frequently in practice ) , he will be of considerably less value to the children under his care than a man or woman with humbler qualifications but greater maturity , integrity and interest in children . |
| 28 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 29 | As a rough guide , if a fever persists more than a day or two in a child under 2 years then consider seeking advice . |
| 30 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |