Example sentences of "[adv] for [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly because only a proportion of hinds conceive in a given year and individual stags rarely hold harems throughout the whole breeding season , and partly because few stags breed successfully for more than four years . |
| 2 | I am delighted : it is an issue on which I have campaigned vigorously for more than two years . |
| 3 | So while his empire teetered , Mr Bond sailed on for more than three days incom-municado . |
| 4 | Be aware of the time limit : no election campaign goes on for more than three or four weeks in the United Kingdom — be glad about that ! |
| 5 | But what 's the point of holding a meeting that goes on for more than twelve hours ? |
| 6 | Even professional tape-recorders after the war could not keep the quality high enough for more than two or three generations . |
| 7 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 8 | According to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago . |
| 9 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ( A migrant is one intending to stay out or in for more than 12 months . ) |
| 11 | Only once did we have leave together for more than forty-eight hours back in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | But after a little gentle persuasion , she has allowed me to tell you she is Maggie Lomas , the regular director of our main news programmed She knows me pretty well by now — after all , we 've worked together for more than 20 years , including the recent series of " At Home " programmes . |
| 13 | They worked together for more than twenty years . |
| 14 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been together for more than 18 months and we see one another when we can . |
| 16 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 17 | ‘ When I 'm away for more than six or seven days , the pang starts and I need to see her ’ . |
| 18 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 19 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 20 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 21 | It was a game that kicked off an hour late after a bomb alert closed White Hart Lane leaving thousands of fans and both teams locked outside for more than two hours . |
| 22 | ‘ Not for less than a thousand pounds ! ’ cried Lady Durbeyfield . |
| 23 | The field had not been ploughed for at least 80 years ( probably not for more than 150 years ) and there is no record of fertilizer or herbicide ever having been applied . |
| 24 | Your building is completed ; your medical establishment arranged ; the rules and orders for the government of the House suggested and published ; and already for more than one month , the indigent and afflicted have been deriving comfort and relief from the institution . |
| 25 | Today he will set off from Paignton to Topsham , a 27.7-mile walk that will mean pounding the roads non-stop for more than eight hours . |
| 26 | He has lived at his Glebe Farm home for more than 30 years but had not relished fighting for its survival . |
| 27 | TWO men were rescued from a pothole after being trapped underground for more than ten hours last night . |
| 28 | Three are straightforward KH-11s , of which one has been up for more than six years ; three are advanced KH-11s . |
| 29 | Despite this the symptom of urgency is invariably improved and all 81 patients with ulcerative colitis who have been followed up for more than six months state that they can defer defaecation for more than two hours . |
| 30 | Menopausal state , pregnancy , and oestrogen containing drugs — Because of the possible influence of menopausal state , pregnancy and oestrogen containing drugs , details about these factors were sought by questionnaire in the 65 women who were followed up for more than six months . |