Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | One survey discovered that 31% of spot sufferers had blemishes for 3–5 years , and 14% for more than 10 years . |
| 2 | Having reviewed the scheme , an FAC Working Group recommended no change for the year commencing 1 April 1993 , but this recommendation was not accepted by the committee and the CAA has since notified AOC operators that it ‘ has it in mind ’ to raise AOC charges for operators of aircraft of less than fifteen tonnes maximum take-off weight by fifty per cent from April . |
| 3 | Databases have continued to grow : the Land Survey borehole database now contains about half a million lithological records from just over 90 000 boreholes , and the structural database contains data from more than 11 000 sites . |
| 4 | We have used a combination of aerodynamic models and comparative data from more than 600 museum skins to examine the costs of tail elongation in birds . |
| 5 | Although we were not able to collect complete data from more than one seizure in any of the 6 patients , the incomplete data from repeated seizures suggest that a similar rise in extracellular fluid glutamate before seizures is a consistent finding . |
| 6 | The mechanism is claimed to address the problem that a first-generation client-server database does not support a standard SQL query or a standard SQL update transaction that accesses data on more than one server . |
| 7 | Where companies provided data on more than one project they came from separate divisions within the firm , thus representing 65 separate R&D organizations with their own management . |
| 8 | Taken together , the GISSI-2 and ISIS-3 trials provide data on more than 62,000 patients . |
| 9 | The six-cylinder 300SE offers 130mph-plus autobahn potential and the flagship V SEL , 156 mph and 0–60 mph in less than 6.9 seconds . |
| 10 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 11 | The 10 payments listed in the letter range from £607,500 to more than £55m and took place between the end of May and the beginning of September 1991 , the same time as the transfer of £250m from MCC to private Maxwell companies . |
| 12 | The 1991 swim raised enough money to donate £10,000 to more than 100 local charities , while putting £6,000 into a permanent Superswim Fund which will help to support charities for years to come . |
| 13 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 14 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 15 | Fish of more than 10lb in weight have been caught , generally by autumn anglers , trolling for salmon . |
| 16 | Remember that most shoals of sizeable bream , say fish of more than 3lb , patrol beats well out from the banks . |
| 17 | Feed your fish from more than one tin at a time . |
| 18 | Time and temperature indicators are small stickers which can be placed in the outside of food containers and will change colour from white to red of food temperature rises above 12°C for more than two hours . |
| 19 | As a few of these modules may have started in a previous session , or may be expected to finish in a future session , some will count in statistics for more than one session . |
| 20 | Independent studies suggest that half these 35m are uninsured for less than three months , and 85% for less than two years . |
| 21 | The number of account holders has also grown , but less dramatically , from 1.82m to more than 4.4m . |
| 22 | This would raise the weekly pension of a widow of a second world war private from £57 to more than £100 . |
| 23 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 24 | In Bristol , a group of shops affected by trading on 8 December saw their incomes drop from about £4,000 to less than £3,000 , a drop of about 25 per cent . |
| 25 | The true proportion of people worth less than £2 in the vale was probably closer to the 32.7 per cent in Barton near Bristol hundred than to the 14.8 per cent in Whitstone , just south of Gloucester . |
| 26 | THE unit trust industry achieved its best sales for more than five years in February . |
| 27 | It is followed by a setting of Petrarch 's ‘ Hor ch'el Ciel e la Terra el vento tace ’ which begins with a breathtaking suggestion of total silence by means of more than twenty repetitions of a single triad . |
| 28 | The new firm will boast a total staff of more than 10,000 , including 637 partners , in 30 offices . |
| 29 | From six members , the company has grown in less than four years to a staff of more than 90 , and a base of more than 200 installed systems . |
| 30 | However , Sir Lewis has made great efforts to dispel an admitted ‘ deep scepticism ’ at his appointment among the group 's staff of more than 7,000 , and there is growing confidence among them in what he is doing . |