Example sentences of "were [prep] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , 2.16 million summonses were issued under this Administrative Default Procedure , two thirds of which were for less than £500 — there were only 1.98 million in 1983 . |
| 2 | of money claims in the county court in 1989 were for less than £500 , the small claims limit . |
| 3 | Mr Bond told the Federal Court late last year that his assets were worth less than £25,000 , although he had been receiving about £3,000 a month salary from a firm , Metals Exploration Ltd . |
| 4 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |
| 5 | If the greatest and richest in the land were exempted from the indignity of assessment , so many of the poorest were simply overlooked that every list ended up short of about one-third of the men it should have included , and since almost all of these were worth less than £2 the general level of wealth is made to look higher than it really was . |
| 6 | All occupiers of property in the five parishes who were rated at £10 per annum , or whose personal estates were worth more than £500 , were nominated as the Guardians of the Poor of Bedford . |
| 7 | Germany and France were worth more than £100m between them , while sales to Poland , the Czech and Slovak Republics , and Hungary increased 27% , ‘ after sustained investment ’ . |
| 8 | Meredith explained it was touch-line supporters they were after rather than players . |
| 9 | COTE d'IVOIRE : Opposition leaders and student representatives were among more than 240 people arrested after violence broke out during demonstrations in the capital , Abidjan , on 13 and 18 February . |
| 10 | Members of the Nottingham Graduates Group in Nottingham — NoGGIN — were among more than 400 people who thronged the University 's New Arts Centre on Valentine 's Day , February 14 , for a private view of the Centre 's inaugural exhibition . |
| 11 | The rebels were among more than 18,000 nomads who had returned since the beginning of the year from Algeria and Libya , having sought refuge in those countries during the drought of the mid-1980s . |
| 12 | Of the three hundred Americans on board , anxious to get back across the Atlantic to safety , twenty-eight were among more than a hundred people drowned . |
| 13 | ATHLETICS : Steve Cram and Linford Christie were among more than 2,000 mourners at the funeral of Great Britain team manager Les Jones near Portadown , County Armagh , yesterday . |
| 14 | These civilian truck drivers were among more than a hundred evacuated to safer positions . |