Example sentences of "than [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A general degree which would require three years of full-time study should normally require no less than five years and no more than eight years of part-time study . |
| 2 | Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience . |
| 3 | There is some evidence that the rate of increase has slowed down in the 1980s , but there still were more than 160,000 divorces in 1985 . |
| 4 | Exclusion criteria were as follows : ( 1 ) age under 18 or above 85 years ; ( 2 ) pregnancy ; ( 3 ) albuminuria greater than 500 mg per 24 hours ; ( 4 ) acute myocardial infarction in the three months before the study ; ( 5 ) a history of asthma or allergy to drugs . |
| 5 | But the ever-smiling Adams , who has been dogged by a catalogue of injuries over the past two years , was in no mood to feel sorry for himself at Party Politics ' home-coming , attended by more than 500 people in Upper Lambourn yesterday . |
| 6 | He should be listening to parents in his constituency who have opted overwhelmingly for the CTC , with more than 500 applications for 248 places last year and with 660 applications for next year . |
| 7 | Debt and economic difficulties are less significant than political priorities in determining access to education . |
| 8 | Of course there is no reason why the takeover of a football club should arouse greater interest than controversial manoeuvres in any other area of commerical life but this ignores the status Manchester United have acquired so the negotiations were bound to provoke serious misgivings . |
| 9 | Here it is salutary to recall Foucault 's scepticism with regard to the ‘ perilous ease ’ with which politics quickly assumes positions that provide intellectual guarantees rather than specific analyses of particular relations or transformations ; he reacts in the same way to political analogies , and correspondences , or to hasty links with current political practices . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the impact of the 1981 Education Act has meant that the field of special educational needs has been more affected than mainstream practice by these new policies . |
| 11 | THE recovery of no fewer than eleven kinds of filamentous microfossil from 3,465-million-year-old rocks in Western Australia ( J. W. Schopf Science 260 , 640–646 ; 1993 ) , shows that life was not only in existence a few hundred million years after the planet was formed , but was thriving : rarely does one find single fossils of this antiquity , let alone entire communities . |
| 12 | In Punjab , the worst affected province , more than 1,700,000 hectares of agricultural land were reportedly affected and 20-50 per cent of the country 's partially harvested cotton crop , its main foreign exchange earner , was destroyed . |
| 13 | Eighteen percent of their mines have this so called deep cut system , but has more than fifty percent of all the fatal accidents in those eighteen percent of the mines . |
| 14 | My name is and , er it appears to me , sir that you like to make life difficult for the managers to negotiate wage settlements with the employees of the company I note that your salary has increased by more than fifty percent in one year . |
| 15 | The Annual Register for 1766 lists more than fifty outbreaks in forty places , and at least as many seem to have escaped its notice . |
| 16 | In the War of the Spanish Succession they were seldom able to keep more than fifty warships of all sizes at sea simultaneously ; and declining economic strength and the complications of their federal constitution made a recovery of their former status impossible . |
| 17 | Most of the following information was obtained from replies to a letter from the Chairman to more than fifty correspondents in various parts of the world ( see Appendix 2.9 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ We must be the only band in history to have paid more than fifty quid for one of his albums . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We must be the only band in history to have paid more than fifty quid for one of his albums . ’ |
| 20 | There must be more than fifty passengers to each stove . ’ |
| 21 | The functional rather than case-finding approach to this screening raises different issues . |
| 22 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 23 | would , together with any shares already held by the person or persons by or on whose behalf the advertisement is being issued , carry not less than that percentage of those voting rights . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This is a billion pound bruising for the motorist as today 's Budget will bring the Chancellor more than that figure in general revenue . ’ |
| 25 | More than 70 delegates from 33 opposition parties meeting in Salahuddin and Shaqlawah , near Arbil , in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq on Sept. 23-27 , proclaimed their unity and agreed to form a federal government . |
| 26 | The changes , which took immediate effect , resulted from an inquiry launched on April 22 , following the disclosure that Sununu had made more than 70 trips on military aircraft since April 1989 . |
| 27 | Quinn has scored more than 70 goals for United since his £680,000 transfer from Portsmouth in 1989 . |
| 28 | Through more than 70 years of Soviet history , Leninist logic encouraged the belief that somehow the Soviet Union , however badly run , could ignore the laws of economic gravity . |
| 29 | Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries . |
| 30 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |