Example sentences of "after [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After less than a half-hour of sitting alone he would grow restless , scatter his books untidily about the table and disappear outside . |
| 2 | Slobs like me who iron only when they are forced to , and then only the bits that show , stand to recoup their investment after less than a year 's worth of shirts . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I was not to be with Basil for long , for after less than a year he was appointed as Art Adviser to the West Riding . |
| 4 | A serious crisis erupted within the Janata Dal party ( the main component of the ruling National Front coalition ) in mid-July , and came close to destroying India 's coalition government after less than a year in power . |
| 5 | If Mr Kinnock 's voice is beginning to grate a little after less than a month 's campaigning , is there a risk that the populace as a whole will not take to his Welsh lilt , should he get into Number 10 ? |
| 6 | Nagaland 's United Legislature Front ( ULF ) government led by K. L. Chisi collapsed on June 13 after less than a month in office [ see p. 37452 for formation of ULF government from a coalition of Congress ( I ) defectors and the Nagaland People 's Council — NPC ] . |
| 7 | After less than an hour , he deliberately nudged her as she carried a pile of plates . |
| 8 | As midnight struck on vesting day , Lord Citrine , after more than a year of planning , was waiting up excitedly with Sir Henry Self in the flat above their new London headquarters in a converted block of flats in Great Portland Street . |
| 9 | at a party , after more than a year . |
| 10 | In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Scotland , the teenager alleges that after more than a year of taunting and physical attack she could not continue and left the Royal High School . |
| 11 | AFTER more than a decade of rising profits , Highland Distilleries saw its growth record interrupted in the six months to February . |
| 12 | After more than a decade of research ( see , for instance , Chem . |
| 13 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 14 | After more than a century it might support oak and birch . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After more than an hour his solicitor arrived to talk to him . |