Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she takes that for more than seven days it can poison her system . |
| 2 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 3 | I 've had four in the morning 's like this for more than fifteen years . |
| 4 | But about 200 have spent some time in detention , some for more than four months . |
| 5 | Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law , some for more than eight years . |
| 6 | Yet after the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1871 ) , none of the great powers fought one another for more than forty years , although these years were full , if not of wars , at least of rumours of wars . |
| 7 | Visitors admire some of more than 200 floral displays yesterday at the opening of the Celebration in Colour flower festival at St Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire . |
| 8 | The project , backed by the Department of Health , comes amid fears that symptom-relieving inhalers may be causing some of more than 2,000 deaths a year . |
| 9 | Housing committee chairwoman Margaret Clarke said she was concerned that confidential details concerning at least some of more than 100 grant applications approved last month had got into the hands of someone in business . |
| 10 | Combine this with more than 200 branches ( all separate charities ) , ‘ a massive number ’ of animal homes and an inspectorate which is ‘ probably the largest private prosecutor in the country ’ , and it is clear that a close rein has to be kept on finances . |
| 11 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 12 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 13 | If it is more , once again divide into sections each of less than 16,000 and save as A , B , C and so on . |
| 14 | Under the terms of the settlement Iran agreed to pay $50,000,000 to settle individual US claims each of less than $250,000 , for property seized , contracts voided or debts unpaid since 1979 . |
| 15 | Do n't plan on selling too much at more than 10p an item . |
| 16 | The majority of leg ulcers ( 291 : 62 per cent ) had been present for under two years , 48 per cent ( 141 ) of these for less than six months . |
| 17 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 18 | 6.6% ( 125 ) men and 14.0% ( 297 ) women had been incontinent of urine at some time — 2.8% ( 52 ) men and 7.5% ( 159 ) women in the previous two months and 61% ( 124 ) of these for more than four years . |
| 19 | He divided these into more than thirty occupational groupings , some of which , woollen workers for example , could be further subdivided . |
| 20 | Four were modest purchases all of less than £500,000 . |
| 21 | At the other extreme , the proportion of elderly was smallest in LLMAs which have New or Expanded Towns at their core , such as Tamworth , Harlow , Basil don , Red ditch and Milton Keynes , all with less than 12.0 per cent in pensionable age groups in 1981 ( Champion et al . , |
| 22 | ‘ British government securities ’ consist of central government bonds , almost all with less than five years to maturity . |
| 23 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 24 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 25 | The latter at more than eight minutes long could easily have become one but for the hypnotic strains and pumping rhythm . |
| 26 | Tear up all the job descriptions in your area and rewrite each in less than forty words . |
| 27 | The price for tax purposes will now include any accessories added to a car after it is made available to an employee , unless these were made available on or before 31 July 1993 and excluding those worth less than £100 . |
| 28 | This approach may be supplemented by segregating young pigs from those of more than nine months of age which will be excreting eggs . |
| 29 | And that 's what we 're selling more of now than anything else er and I , I think it 's quite a good idea really , light up the things that you like in the house , er and erm , not the things you do n't like . |
| 30 | The number of visits was strongly related to the number of visitors : of those with less than five visitors , a quarter had a hundred or more visits , but this proportion was three-quarters for those with five or more visitors . |