Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You accused me of being little better than a thief , a cheat , as though I 'd masterminded it all just to hurt you . |
| 2 | The six fabliaux selected for summarizing here are , if in any way at all , only slightly untypical in being generally longer than average , this being an efficient way of conveying something of the range of what is to be found amongst the French fabliaux . |
| 3 | Propagation velocity had to be neither more than 8.3 cm/s nor less than 1 cm/s ; ( 8 ) non-propagated contractions ( No/24 h ) , defined as contraction waves that are not associated with a proximal contraction wave or have an apparent propagation velocity >8.3 cm/s . |
| 4 | But despite Rumens 's wit and some good supporting acting , this gets to be little more than one of those stories that might grace Woman Now 's problems page . |
| 5 | Prose entries to be no longer than 250 words . |
| 6 | For example , bread loaves have to be either less than 300g ( in which case a weight does not have to be declared ) or multiples of 400g ) when the weight does have to be shown ) . |
| 7 | So I said if it 's only for a mile it 's going to be well less than a minute at eighty , presuming you were doing more than thereabouts and er that was it . |
| 8 | But hopes of an early offer were dashed yesterday when Peter Bonfield , chairman and chief executive , said the flotation was likely to be later rather than sooner because ICL could not meet the Fujitsu criterion of sustaining a market price of 225p a share . |
| 9 | If suitable provisions ( Clause 19 ) are included in the partnership agreement ( and they are discussed in greater detail in Chapter 7 ) the interests of the firm can be largely protected ( or at any rate damage limited ) : when getting rid of a miscreant partner is likely to be rather easier than dismissing an employee whose thoughts may have turned to taking proceedings for wrongful dismissal . |
| 10 | Therefore we accept that the actual provision within the city er will have to be considerably less than the calculated requirement for the city . |
| 11 | He had no wish for company nor wanted to be anywhere else than in that room with the paint-flecked table . |
| 12 | So you 're going to be there more than you 're going to be here , |
| 13 | As the program time needed to send each step command is likely to be much less than 0.1 ms the processor has spare capacity for other tasks . |
| 14 | They also negotiate with her a ‘ coming home time ’ if she is going to be out later than usual . |
| 15 | When it began to dawn that you were going to be out more than a fortnight or three weeks , did anything emerge that w that you can see was to keep you encouraged for that period ? |
| 16 | No such obligation would in my view ordinarily arise where the third party comes into possession of information which , although once confidential , has ceased to be so otherwise than through the agency of the third party . |
| 17 | The final type of classification is one that appears to be less rather than more relevant for the 1990s than previously . |
| 18 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 19 | well I 'm gon na be off more than anybody else . |