Example sentences of "[adj] of [pron] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | half of them less than £100000 . |
| 2 | Pearce nevertheless made a point of visiting every single British Aerospace factory at one time or another during his seven years as chairman , some of them more than once . |
| 3 | Some of them more than that one was advertised for . |
| 4 | Yeah , it 's the , it 's the with the word natural is n't it that er you know people often use the word natural to mean good and right and therefore something you should do , but of course no not always I mean if I said to you death is natural , nobody here would think I was advocating suicide or that er we should n't have hospitals to try and save people 's lives I mean er when you say death is natural , what you mean is death is one of those things that we just have to put up with , we 'd rather we did n't but we 're all gon na have to face it in the end , some of us sooner than others er but erm but there we are . |
| 5 | Marriage is , after all , a crossroads that most of us come to , some of us more than once . |
| 6 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |
| 7 | The formula is unique ; over half our guests return — many of them more than six times . |
| 8 | Having said all that , you should keep your hands and nails in good condition for yourself and be proud of them rather than try to hide them away from view . |
| 9 | One of them more than most . |
| 10 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 11 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 12 | More than 4,400 Teesside homes now stood within 200 metres of overhead lines , almost 900 of them closer than 50 metres . |
| 13 | ‘ So , ’ Luke 's voice overrode her own , ‘ I 'm sure I need n't tell you that the evening has a better chance of success with four of us rather than three . ’ |
| 14 | In 1907 about 2,250,000 German peasants had from 5 to 250 acres apiece , most of them less than 50 . |