Example sentences of "more than [art] old " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind this monument from the past , no more than an old man 's rotten tooth , rise the buildings of the new age , featureless mathematical boxes assembled from concrete , their serried rows of uniform plate glass windows catching a gleam of what is probably the setting sun . |
| 2 | AT THE turn of the last century there was no more than an old windmill on the Burston site . |
| 3 | I am afraid that DeFreitas is nothing more than an old , well-tried and trusted failure . |
| 4 | Without this we are left with little more than the old rather ‘ Whiggish ’ account of how reasonable men gradually came to perceive women 's ills . |
| 5 | This allowed the company to crow about the new models that cost no more than the old — a favourite Ford device but by no means exclusive to the blue oval badge . |
| 6 | Hilton interprets ‘ new mind ’ or ‘ new feeling ’ as the creation of contemplation , which now demanded far more than the old Benedictine ideal where the monk did not experience God in the achievement of higher states of consciousness but in the mundane details of daily life . |
| 7 | But the new property must not be worth more than the old one . |
| 8 | Indeed in the first two months after opening the new Traverse made £10,000 more than the old venue 's income for the whole of the previous year . |