Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sovicille for shops is less than three miles away . |
| 2 | Events in Guatemala in 1954 set a vivid precedent and were a potent reminder that even a glance in the direction of Communism was more than the United States was prepared to countenance . |
| 3 | An excellent seam of Dutchmen was worked , " these were all Dutch naval pilots and navigators , not particularly experienced but the lack of hours was more than compensated for by their almost embarrassing zest for flying . |
| 4 | The taxpayer appealed against his 1982/3 capital gains tax assessment on the grounds that the allowable expenditure of £214,602 was less than the amount of the £246,699 capital distribution , and he could therefore elect under s 72(4) to reduce the amount distributed by the entire allowable expenditure on his C Ltd shares ; and that the capital distribution , at 15.58% of the total consideration , was ‘ small , as compared with the value of the shares in respect of which it was distributed ’ ( s 72(2) ) . |
| 5 | Masked by the formalities of the telegram sent yesterday morning to Mr Major by M Jacques Delors , EC commission president , the mood in the corridors of Brussels was less than euphoric . |
| 6 | But the Council 's annual rent of £8,000 was more than they could afford . |
| 7 | This avoided the usual data capture problems , and although the amount of data was less than ideal ( ie there were no job titles , qualifications , addresses etc ) the accuracy was likely to be of a high order . |
| 8 | About how much of Scotland is more than 10 km from a railway ? |
| 9 | Most of the farmers interviewed in the south-west of England were more than 50 year old , and the very small farms represented 30 per cent of all agricultural holdings in that region . |
| 10 | ‘ If it helps you make up your mind , Mrs Diamond , I should tell you that I 'm a friend of Heather 's rather than a friend of her family … if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 11 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
| 12 | The total number of casualties was less than 150 . |
| 13 | The northernmost tip of Hokkaido is less than 50 kilometres from the now Russian-owned island of Sakhalin . |
| 14 | Between the years 1715 to 1852 the average number of divorces was less than two per year . |
| 15 | At the meeting of the Down Presbytery , the first difficulty was innate sympathy towards the army and reluctance to admit that the shooting of Black was more than another of those unfortunate accidents which occur in war . |
| 16 | On top of the news she had received , the thought of her beloved sister dying with regrets and a sense of guilt was more than she could bear . |
| 17 | Capital expenditure of £54.9m was more than covered by cash flow generated from operati |
| 18 | When the socialist Francisco Largo Caballero became Prime Minister and Minister for War on 4 September 1936 , the Army of Africa was less than 100 kilometres away from Madrid , advancing rapidly from the south-west . |
| 19 | But the point of departure was more than merely physical . |
| 20 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 21 | Using the equation above , the probability that a difference of this order has been missed in this series of experiments is less than 1% for both acid and pepsin . |
| 22 | The Court ruled that the threat to the girl 's life from her repeated threats of suicide was less than the certainty of the unborn child 's loss of life through an abortion . |
| 23 | Two thirds of patients are more than 60 years of age . |
| 24 | The declaration of policy was more than a statement of priorities and objectives , designed to disavow as misdirected Mr Benn 's essay in Industrial Co-operation and to restore credibility to the idea — and , incidentally , to meet Signor Prandini 's dismissive criticism . |
| 25 | The between batch coefficient of variation was less than 3.0% . |
| 26 | If the endowments are positively correlated , and the share of capital is less than 50 per cent , the inequality-reducing effect is larger . |
| 27 | Only as late as 1918 was it established — by a woman doctor — that the juice of lemons is more than twice as rich in anti-scorbutic vitamins as that of the lime , for long thought to be as or more effective than lemon juice in the prevention of scurvy . |
| 28 | The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust sampled water in various parts of the river and discovered that in one area ; Gloucester , the amount of ammonia was more than fifteen times the normal level . |
| 29 | The Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust sampled water in various parts of the river and discovered that in one area ; Gloucester , the amount of ammonia was more than fifteen times the normal level . |
| 30 | Not only does BSL learning apparently take much longer ( ‘ beginners ’ were people with up to three years ' experience ) but only the beginner group showed the normal pattern of understanding being better than production . |