Example sentences of "is no [adv] [subord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason is not technical difficulty or avalanches , but the fact that the normal route involves reaching a ridge at 7,000 metres which is no less than four kilometres away from the summit pyramid . |
| 2 | But Mansell is no less than thirty-nine seconds up on him , which means he has to make up at least a second a lap and preferably more . |
| 3 | Without such teachers , the best possible curriculum is no more than one lesson after another . ’ |
| 4 | The most flattering effect is no more than one to two shades lighter than your natural colour . ’ |
| 5 | For the believer the Kingdom as a heavenly reality is no more than one generation away . |
| 6 | Encounter was launched in London in 1953 , an Anglo-American monthly whose appeal was always international , and above all intellectually anti-communist ; and the London Magazine started in the following year , first under the editorship of John Lehmann , then of Alan Ross — a general magazine where literature is no more than one concern among others . |
| 7 | The first law of thermodynamics is no more than one expression of the law of conservation of energy . |
| 8 | I think in a two-minute interview what you can expect is no more than two or three questions , possibly four . |
| 9 | The intention is to achieve categories within which the size of the shelf stock at any service point is no more than 100 titles . |
| 10 | Expectations of childhood and ways of treating babies changed rapidly in the 1950s , and perhaps the difference in perception between me and my sister is no more than four years ' difference in age , and a reflection of a change in expectation on the part of children themselves , learned from the altered practice of adults around . |
| 11 | From the Col there is , in summer , a rack railway that will lift you , if you are so minded , to the conspicuous because lonely summit of La Rhune , which is far and away the most prominent mountain at this Atlantic end of the Pyrenees , even though it is no more than 3,000 feet high . |
| 12 | There is no real connection ; the Coal Sack is no more than 500 light-years away , so that it is in the foreground . |
| 13 | From the fading elegance of tree-lined Wood Lane to the Wharf car park is no more than 500 yards for a purposeful crow , but for a motorist on the one-way system it is the better part of a mile . |
| 14 | for approximate computational purposes it is normally assumed in the western world that a full working year is no more than 200 man-days . |
| 15 | It has neither the power nor the resources to counter the pressure of the exceedingly well-organized farmers ' lobby , nor is the level of unionization in agriculture sufficiently high — it is no more than 40 per cent — to permit the contemplation of widespread militant activity . |
| 16 | The accurate detection range of these methods is no more than 0.05 per cent , so they are not suitable for the determination of the trace elements of a coin 's alloy . |
| 17 | In other cases the prisoner will know only that it is 20 years or more , although if he asks and if it is no more than 20 years he will , as I understand it , be given that information . |