Example sentences of "[adv] than [num] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most HCFCs have an ozone depletion potential less than one-tenth that of CFC 11 or 12 . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) Subject to subsection ( 9 ) and ( 13 ) below , a licensing board shall consist of not less than one-quarter of the total number of members of the district or islands council and in no case shall consist of less than five such members . |
| 3 | Table 5.2 shows that over the period 1971 to 1988 the number employing 1,000 or more workers fell by more than half to leave less than 500 such factories in the whole country . |
| 4 | Farnborough , who took West Ham to a reply in the FA Cup last year , are in desperate financial trouble with debts of £50,000 and crowds of less than 500 this season . |
| 5 | Now we are able to employ 16,000 more doctors and dentists than in the late '70s , and no less than 60,000 more nurses . |
| 6 | Currently , extensive areas of Europe and eastern North America are experiencing average pH values of less than 4.5 and even less than 4.0 This represents precipitation acidity up to 30–40 times that which would be expected from an unpolluted atmosphere ( figure 4.3 ) . |
| 7 | The episode should , in other words , be seen as a new departure rather than one more stage in a faction struggle initiated by the Woodvilles , and this places responsibility firmly on Gloucester 's shoulders . |
| 8 | The episode should , in other words , be seen as a new departure rather than one more stage in a faction struggle initiated by the Woodvilles , and this places responsibility firmly on Gloucester 's shoulders . |
| 9 | That part of the Bill has been strongly opposed by the Ramblers Association , but I imagine that it will be welcomed by railway locomotive drivers who , for example , face more than 100 such crossings whenever they drive from King 's Cross to Newcastle . |
| 10 | US State Department sources said on Feb. 12 that there had been more than 100 such attacks against allied targets since Jan. 17 . |
| 11 | German authorities in late October confirmed a marked increase in cases involving the sale and smuggling of nuclear weapons material from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; more than 100 such cases were said to have been uncovered in 1992 compared with only 29 in 1991 . |
| 12 | Candidates included 63 non-communists and seven members of the clergy , as well as more than 100 former assembly members . |
| 13 | THE LEITH Aged Mariners ' Fund asks members of the public and companies to send donations to enable it to continue its financial assistance to more than 100 former merchant seamen and their dependants . |
| 14 | Moxon and Byas took advantage of some mediocre bowling to score at five an over and lay the foundations for Yorkshire 's first limited overs score of more than 200 this season . |
| 15 | More than 300,000 more families are on income support as a result of the economic mismanagement and incompetence for which the Government and the Chancellor are responsible . |
| 16 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 17 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 18 | in the case of a settlement made under a testamentary disposition of the settlor or on his intestacy , the time of his death ; and 2. in the case of any other settlement , the time or , where there is more than one each of the times , when he has provided funds directly or indirectly for the purposes of the settlement . |
| 19 | There was n't room for more than one such space hogger at Barnsdale ; after much agonised indecision I finally could n't resist the bronze-leaved Rodgersia pinnata . |
| 20 | Despite the instability of these 1,3-Dithiadiazoles , compounds with more than one such ring have been prepared . |
| 21 | in the case of a vehicle which has one forward-facing front seat alongside the driver 's seat , such seat , and in the case of a vehicle which has more than one such seat , the one furthest from the driver 's seat ; or |
| 22 | If only one vector x exists for which Ax = 0 , A is said to be simply degenerate , or to have simple degeneracy ; if more than one such vector x exists , A has multiple degeneracy . |
| 23 | It is the doing of one or more acts which individually or collectively amount to such adverse interference with or usurpation of the owner 's rights which constitute appropriation under section 3(1) and I do not think it matters where there is more than one such act in which order the successive acts take place , or whether there is any interval of time between them . |
| 24 | But more than one such mention , or a too heavily insisted on mention , especially when it is plain that it is not contributing to the whole , simply draws attention to the fact that you are producing fiction . |
| 25 | However , there are some pitfalls to be aware of when the system may be running more than one such process simultaneously . |
| 26 | If the YAC y is chimeric then it will have more than one such region . |
| 27 | Of his Cornish relations he said that he found them ‘ … most excellent people , but I could not understand more than one half they said ’ . |
| 28 | It has been suggested that Biggs does not possess the heart but when so badly cut that he could not be allowed more than one more round he went back out and stopped David Bey . |
| 29 | There were probably no more than two such staffs in all the cities of the circle sea . |
| 30 | A 90-YEAR-OLD Japanese man will be among more than 5,000 former rugby players from around the globe who will be re-living their youth in Dublin later this week . |