Example sentences of "[prep] no [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two , like his solicitor and his second wife 's psychiatrist , took their leave after no more than 90 minutes . |
| 2 | After no more than five or ten seconds ' pause the door shivered under a hard kick , and then another . |
| 3 | The only one is that constant crying is usually ‘ self-limiting ’ — that is , it stops by itself after running its course ; usually after no more than three to four months . |
| 4 | The economy was improving , and evidence of increased confidence within L&SE can be found in 1983 in the eventual introduction of electric one-person-operated trains between Moorgate , St Pancras and Bedford ; the opening of no less than four new stations ; and government approval for the long awaited electrification of the Tonbridge-Hastings line . |
| 5 | L&SE went out with a bang rather than a whimper. 12 May was marked by the introduction of no less than four new electric services ; on the Eastern Region branch lines between Wickford and Southminster and between Romford and Upminster ; on the Great Eastern main line between Manningtree and Harwich ; and ( at last ) over the thirty-two miles between Tonbridge and Hastings . |
| 6 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 7 | Yet the current momentum of industrial development is expected to result in the disappearance of no less than 20,000 species of plants and animals over the next decade . |
| 8 | The ‘ pannage season ’ was fixed by medieval custom , but since the New Forest Act of 1964 the Forestry Commissioners , after consultation with the verderers , may fix any suitable term of no less than sixty days . |
| 9 | On the negative side and however ‘ normal ’ for the period , we must remember that Charles was responsible for a number of massacres during his campaigns ; in 782 at Verden , he ordered the slaughter of no less than 4,500 unarmed prisoners . |
| 10 | Abbey Mill ( c1600 ) consisted of no less than four mills , forming a single range across the Mill Avon , and for a time following this , there were five , although the latter was fairly short-lived . |
| 11 | But recently , the City of Westminster successfully prosecuted both an owner and builder , who had stripped out large quantities of fine panelling from an early eighteenth-century house in Soho , on a total of no less than fourteen charges . |
| 12 | Some andesite lavas reach staggering proportions ; the largest yet described , in northern Chile , has a volume of no less than twenty-four cubic kilometres ! |
| 13 | The young Einstein was unable to find an academic position , went to work in the Bern patent office , and in one incredible year ( 1905 ) , at the age of 26 , wrote a number of research papers that laid the foundations of no less than three major branches of modern physics — statistical mechanics , the quantum theory and special relativity . |
| 14 | It is not that they are not used : vitamins are prescribed and bought on a massive scale for people without the slightest hint of a deficiency , and ginseng is now sold in chemists and health-food shops in the UK to the tune of no less than £7 million a year . |
| 15 | Output had been steadily growing by about five million bottles every fifteen years , and was destined to reach a total of no less than thirty million bottles a year by the turn of the century . |
| 16 | Having said that , the book deals with the ten roughly parallel valleys that cut deep into the range from the north , with details of no less than 115 hiking routes . |
| 17 | Sensiq 's New Age Neutrals range comprises of no less than seventeen superb shades for eyes , face , cheeks and lips . |
| 18 | I no. 83 as Nicolas Poussin ) but with the acquisition of no less than six new drawings by Poussin , all from the Anthony Blunt collection , the representation of his work now covers most types of his draughtsmanship except landscape . |
| 19 | A rare moment of genuine excitement surrounded an untitled painting by Mimmo Paladino ( lot 349 , est. £18,000–24,000 ) which engaged the attention of no less than eight bidders before it was sold for £47,000 . |
| 20 | Grossly updating our estimation of surviving Airspeed Oxfords , Jonathan Spinks has found a cache of no less than four substantially complete ( see photos ) airframes and six or so in poor condition at a site in Canada . |
| 21 | Spoiling an otherwise first class video is the inclusion of no less than six shots of interloping Stampes . |
| 22 | Shortly after the official opening ceremony a collection of no less than 11 Norseman floatplanes that had gathered at Red Lake , started-up , taxied around Howey Bay , took-off ( a tremendous effect as the sound of 11 Pratt and Whitney R–134s revving at full power reverberated around the bay ) and performed a series of fly-bys and overshoots over the bay in salute of CF–DRD and the weekend events . |
| 23 | From 1547 the Elector Count of Middenland proclaimed himself Emperor too , making a total of no less than three pretenders , each soliciting allies and supporters amongst the other provinces . |
| 24 | True , industrial economies ' output was flat in 1991 and grew by only 1.5% in 1992 , while Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union suffered a serious slump , but in the developing world output has grown by an average of no less than 5% in the past two years , as many economies in Asia and Latin America have boomed . |
| 25 | Fraserburgh has a long and distinguished lifeboat history , but the town has paid the price with the loss of no less than 13 lifeboatmen 's lives in the course of several disasters . |
| 26 | This was a notoriously lax formation composed of no less than 33 nationalities . |
| 27 | Northumberland 's coach-and-four was a minor matter beside the pension that Cecil took from Spain : £1,000 per annum from 1603 , later increased to £1,500 per annum , crowned by a payment of no less than £12,500 in 1607/08 . |
| 28 | More recently a string of no less than thirty cylinder seals made of lapis lazuli has been recovered from a Mycenaean house at Thebes . |
| 29 | The order is an unusual one in that in proceedings under the Children Act 1989 the justices ordered that the local authority involved in those proceedings should pay to another party the costs of that party in the sum of no less than £7,171.50 . |
| 30 | Since August 1991 Mr. Butler has been the subject of no less than five injunctive orders designed to prevent him assaulting , threatening , harassing or molesting Mrs. Butler . |