Example sentences of "out [prep] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again as shown previously , very few people make any attempt to find out about more than one single credit possibility . |
| 2 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |
| 3 | Now an appeal has gone out for more than 100 of the former workers to lodge applications for payment , no matter the circumstances of their claim . |
| 4 | represents the ‘ strong ’ unemployment trap where individuals are financially better off out of rather than in work . |
| 5 | JIM BAKKER , the fallen televangelist , was convicted yesterday of swindling followers of his Praise The Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) and syphoning off part of the money to fund his extravagant lifestyle . |
| 6 | Bakker was convicted of swindling followers of his Praise the Lord ministry out of more than $150m ( £90m ) , some of which he used as hush money for his mistress , Jessica Hahn . |
| 7 | On Loughrigg Fell , for example , near Grasmere , just one Lakeland fell out of more than 200 detailed with loving care in the guides , he found that every single access point mentioned had changed significantly . |
| 8 | But last month the Department of the Environment revealed that , out of more than 1500 large dams it knew about 191 have no known owner — and many more have no certificate of safety . |
| 9 | The past nine years have sweated the life-blood out of more than 20 firms of architects and half a dozen developers , absorbed countless years of time in two opposing local authorities ( Tower Hamlets and the Corporation of London ) , and aroused the wrath of a host of community groups . |
| 10 | Apart from sexual partners and children born to infected mothers , not one person out of more than 12,000 people studied became infected . |
| 11 | Just 350 rooms out of more than 1000 are open to the public , with the remainder used for stores and auxiliary services . |
| 12 | If you have to join your seat out of more than one piece , remember to keep the loose tongue or biscuits near to one edge so as not to cut through them when adzing . |
| 13 | Matthew and one of Bryant 's clerks were fiddling the invoices ; they swindled Jonathan out of more than eight hundred pounds and Jonathan found out . |
| 14 | Out of more than 50 parties and associations established in the previous 18 months , 28 contested the election but only 12 at national level . |
| 15 | By the 1780s it was only half as much and by 1807 – 10 only £20 million out of more than £500 million of government stock was held abroad . |
| 16 | Only six out of more than 75 interested countries have had forestry plans inaugurated under the plan . |
| 17 | West Mercia police found ninety nine drivers over the legal limit out of more than nine hundred tested . |
| 18 | In Wiltshire out of more than a thousand tests fifty one proved positive compared with sixty last year . |
| 19 | Only eight out of more than two hundred teams made it to today' final at Silverstone |
| 20 | Yesterday , a woman claimed the same charity had conned her out of more than three hundred pounds . |
| 21 | The invention has so impressed the judges of the Toshiba Year of Invention Competition , that Richard has reached the final 20 , out of more than 4,000 entrants . |
| 22 | It could allow only 800 posts to be filled out of more than 1,700 applications nationwide . |
| 23 | ‘ They know we 've always gone out with more than one of them and they 've always accepted it . |
| 24 | The first German edition of Capital ( 1867 ) — a thousand copies — took five years to sell out , but in 1872 the first thousand copies of the Russian edition sold out in less than two months . |
| 25 | What they ignore is Charlton 's ability to dispense knowledge acquired when turning out in more than 600 matches for Leeds United and 35 in the England colours , his World Cup experience of great and possibly lasting importance to the Irish cause . |
| 26 | Nuclear microscopical investigations using unstained tissue were carried out on more than 80 plaque cores from the temporal cortex and hippocampus of four cases of AD and two aged controls . |
| 27 | The process was developed in 1953 and has been licensed out to more than 60 plants in numerous countries . |
| 28 | Anonymous screening for HIV has already been carried out among more than 150,000 pregnant women . |
| 29 | This comes out at less than 2 years for food packaging , 2–10 years for many domestic articles , cars etc , and over 10 years for construction materials and household fittings and appliances . |
| 30 | These comprised some 70,000 people , spread out across more than 100 miles of countryside and mountainous valleys , in an area already clogged with hundreds of thousands of other prisoners , refugees and displaced persons . |