Example sentences of "by [art] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decisions on how much to spend , on what , and where , are made in Congress itself , through the mosaic of committees and subcommittees of the Senate and the House of Representatives which both legislate for and make appropriations to the particular programmes operated by the more than 30 separate departments of the Federal state apparatus . |
| 2 | In fact the Central Statistical Office 's view is that the published deficit overstates the real level by no more than £2bn or £3bn . |
| 3 | Amongst party supporters it increased by no more than 10 per cent , irrespective of what paper they read . |
| 4 | In the central Philippines , the airbase of Mactan was occupied by no more than two hundred rebels and surrounded by allegedly ‘ loyal ’ troops . |
| 5 | Schoolcard holders can go on the bus if accompanied by no more than four adults — if they want to go by train they must have an Adult DayRover ; a Family DayRover is for two adults and three child permit holders or one adult and four child permit holders with dog . |
| 6 | A building adapted or retained in its totality can have many lives ; keeping just the facade might prolong its life by no more than twenty years . |
| 7 | In Wales , however , apathy came first , the status quo second and devolution a bad third , favoured by no more than 12 per cent of the electorate . |
| 8 | Replace the nut and tighten by no more than two complete turns from the moment it bites . |
| 9 | Only in 1994 are prices likely to begin to rise and then probably by no more than 5% . |
| 10 | ‘ The knowledge will be shared by no more than six persons : Edward and yourself , the lady Anne and her mother , Joan de Warenne and myself — and another who shall as yet be nameless . ’ |
| 11 | Software or equipment failures , or processing errors , which do occur in normal working hours will reduce the available time by no more than 17 hours in any continuous three month period . |
| 12 | A balanced tree is one in which any record can be retrieved in a number of steps s or s — 1 , that is the path length to the record varies by no more than one step . |
| 13 | Under the conditions employed for crosslinking , covalent bonds will be formed if the protein and nucleic acid reactive groups are separated by no more than 0.1 nm ( 25 ) . |
| 14 | The striking point was his accuracy in navigation , for after days of dead reckoning , his latitude and longitude were in error by no more than five miles , despite difficulties of navigation in those waters . |
| 15 | A United States proposal , backed by the " Cairns Group " of 14 agricultural exporting nations , led by Australia , to cut internal farm support by 75 per cent and reduce export subsidies by 90 per cent , was resisted by European Community ( EC ) members which offered to cut farm subsidies by no more than 30 per cent . |
| 16 | This bloc 's frontier is separated from ours by no more than 500 kilometres , or just about two stages of the Tour de France ! " |
| 17 | The number of car kilometres travelled annually by the population is to be permitted to increase by no more than 35 per cent , over the 1986 figure , by 2010 . |
| 18 | ( e ) Leases Where partnership property is held on lease by no more than four of the partners on trust for the partners for the time being of the firm and one of the partners joined as lessee leaves the firm , an assignment of the lease should be effected forthwith into the names of four of the continuing partners : the partnership agreement ( Clause 24 ) should oblige the outgoing partner to execute all necessary deeds etc in this behalf . |
| 19 | Both papers claim The Times move has dented their sales by no more than 2pc . |
| 20 | The economy continued to lapse into decline , with manufacturing output having fallen by no less than 10 per cent in the past twelve months . |
| 21 | It then transpired that Arkle , under no pressure , had beaten the course record for the distance by no less than eleven seconds . |
| 22 | In that year , the Scots were assailed by no less than five tracts extolling the benefits of union , including one by Somerset himself , the Epistle or exhortacion to uniti & peace to the inhabitauntes of Scotland . |
| 23 | The title of King of the English was carried by no less than ten male successors before King Canute — who was already King of Denmark and Norway — succeeded at the end of 1016 , to be succeeded by his son in 1035 , and another son in 1040 , but that son died two years later , aged only twenty-four . |
| 24 | The ministry 's figures had erred by no less than 8,2.43 dozen bottles of Champagne : shipments were not down — they were up . |
| 25 | The challenge was taken up by no less than 23 teams during the AKA Convention that year at Columbus , Ohio , all of them fulfilling the specification of being colourful , distinctive and exciting . |
| 26 | In the end , Mooncult was spotted and had to race for his life down a backstreet pursued by no less than 15 hairy sailor types in cocktail dresses and six-inch heels . |
| 27 | It was no ordinary train , but one made up of fifty-seven carriages and hauled by no less than six locomotives that ran the fifty miles from London to the ‘ Daphne ’ of the Metropolis , as Brighton has sometimes been called ( to quote from The London Illustrated News of 7 December 1884 ) ; the journey took four and a half hours . |
| 28 | If manufacturing employment had remained at the 1966 level until 1974 then output would have been higher by 8.6 percent ; but if Britain had matched French or German growth in output per man hour since 1958 then even with the reduction in the labour force the 1974 output level would have been higher by no less than 70 per cent [ Gomulka , 1979 ] . |
| 29 | In the same period the number of men serving medium sentences ( 18 months to 4 years ) rose by 34 per cent and of long sentences ( 4 years or more ) by no less than 82 per cent . |
| 30 | The number of tax-paying urban households fell by no less than 45 per cent between the mid sixteenth century and the 1620s , and recovery was protracted and uneven . |