Example sentences of "than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister is probably aware that the additional cost of living in inner London is more than £4,000 per year and in outer London more than £3,500 per year . |
| 2 | Contracts other than contracts of sale of goods , are not governed by the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 . |
| 3 | Witness , for example , the morose faces ordering house white rather than champagne in the City bars ; the sheepish scramble for the Surbiton train dead on six o'clock ; the City staff noticeboards selling Fiats rather than Ferraris . |
| 4 | Authorizing expenses , travel and recruitment are forms of bureaucratic control rather than manifestations of subordination . |
| 5 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 6 | I 'd rather be dead than fight on one of those things . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yeah , ’ said I. ‘ You got more important things to do than fight with your brother . |
| 8 | For example , he stumbles into this howler on the question of social security as cash , rather than provision in kind : ‘ Social security benefits have been introduced to make up for the withdrawal of more general provision : examples in the UK are free prescriptions ( introduced because prescription charges were introduced ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 9 | It is interesting that a fairly ad-hoc method of transformation ( Test 5 ) is in most respects more successful than division by a prime number . |
| 10 | Hodgkinson senior says Rees faces possible bankruptcy and raised more than £1,000 during Nottingham 's match against Northampton . |
| 11 | Mark Thwaites is to pound his way around the capital on April 12th in an effort to raise more than £1,000 for the charity Tusk Force . |
| 12 | Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than £1,000 for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within fixed assets are less than £3,000 both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation . |
| 13 | GENEROUS donors shocked at the sudden death of a little girl have raised more than £1,000 for vitally-needed equipment . |
| 14 | Hundreds of swimmers raised more than £1,000 for Cleveland charities in a superswim at Eston leisure centre . |
| 15 | The total amounted to only £418,700 — an average of less than £1,000 per conviction . |
| 16 | The more prestigious such as Eton , Harrow and Winchester can afford to charge annual fees in excess of £4,000 ( more than $6,000 in 1983 terms ) , whereas some less prestigious day schools may charge less than £1,000 per year . |
| 17 | He forbade his manager , Leslie Knighton , to spend more than £1,000 on a player , at a time when £3,000 or more was normal . |
| 18 | Bosses announced yesterday they will be putting more than £1,000 on the price of some models from January 3 . |
| 19 | • MORE than £1,000 in prizes is up for grabs in the British All-comers Championships at Tynemouth this Sunday , February 17 . |
| 20 | In terms of hard cash the 1964 pie would have cost £250,000 but in fact there was never more than £1,000 in the bank , the sponsorship being in the form of services and goods rather than money . |
| 21 | Arch-rival Burger King in Newcastle 's bustling Northumberland Street was packed with Christmas shoppers and lost more than £1,000 in takings on one of its busiest days of the year . |
| 22 | The sharp-dressed singer , who 's at No. 37 with Me And Mrs Jones , spent more than £1,000 in stores during a recent visit to London — only days after a £2,000 clothes spree in New York . |
| 23 | They are targeting the 4,000 who owe more than £1,000 in rent . |
| 24 | Recently , we raised more than £1,000 in six weeks from several events including a sponsored walk , and we hope to raise money from a sponsored mini assault course for the children . |
| 25 | Regulars at the Brancepath Castle Inn collected more than £1,000 in one weekend of events . |
| 26 | Today the Belgian Red is still a dual-purpose red breed , with an average milk yield of less than 5,000kg at about 3.95 per cent butterfat . |
| 27 | And ABC 's Martin Fry — who did write his own music — was no less subversive than McLaren in accounting for his own authority . |
| 28 | Heart [ leb ] here signifies the seat of thought , not emotion , so is more akin to ‘ mind ’ ; hence , to labour the analogy somewhat , law is written into identity and consciousness rather than heart in the modern sense . |
| 29 | Do they hold it in an unusual position-to the side rather than full-square to the eyes ? |
| 30 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |