Example sentences of "considerably [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s the average family size of graduate women at the time of interview ( 1.53 ) was considerably lower than the fertility of women with no further education ( 2.04 ) ( Cartwright 1978 ) and they were likely to be childless . |
| 2 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 3 | Temporary workers , as Table 2.9 shows , are considerably younger than the generality of workers . |
| 4 | Temporary workers are also considerably younger than the generality of workers , largely because a high proportion of them are still teenagers . |
| 5 | ( 1977 ) found that those women who had been separated from either or both of their own parents in the context of a disrupted early family life interacted with their babies considerably less than the rest of the mothers . |
| 6 | Secondly , the variation in the reference measurement is greater when a plant is present , but still considerably less than the variation in the plant measurement . |
| 7 | Peggy Ashcroft duly got her gong for playing Lilian , 50 years in the bin , but She 's Been Away was considerably more than a kind of Rain Woman ; a vehicle for acting technique . |
| 8 | The initial , almost instantaneous , elongation produced by the application of the tensile stress is inversely proportional to the rigidity or modulus of the material , i.e. an elastomer with a low modulus stretches considerably more than a material in the glassy state with a high modulus . |
| 9 | He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills . |
| 10 | However , the implementation of a GIS user interface involves considerably more than the improvement of the human-computer interaction ( HCI ) process . |
| 11 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |
| 12 | which is such that the proportion of people of the victim 's racial group who can comply is considerably smaller than the proportion of the people not of that group who can comply ; |
| 13 | Expansion in the service sector has been considerably smaller than the decline in manufacturing . |
| 14 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 15 | Selby et al isolated an excess of44×10 6 mononuclear cells/g UC mucosa , or 440000 per 10 mg biopsy , so both these estimates are considerably smaller than the number of lymphocytes studied with each biopsy ( 2.56×10 6 ) . |
| 16 | Regardless of fluctuations , BBC1 reflected closely the class composition of the population as a whole ; ITV had a working-class skew right from the start ; all channels ( especially ITV had a female skew ; and all had an age profile considerably older than the population as a whole ( in the 1970s , on the other hand 5 — 14 year olds had watched the most ) . |
| 17 | Because , at this level , the floor of the extension is considerably higher than the floor of the main block , the master bedroom is reached from this landing via a flight of five stairs . |
| 18 | Since about 35% of contacts at night are dealt with by telephone the amount of disturbance for individual doctors is considerably higher than the number of claims , and the stress created by night work is out of proportion with the small number of contacts with patients . |
| 19 | Economic indicators show that Cheshire claims to be one of the richest counties in the North of England , with hourly earnings considerably higher than the average for England as a whole . |
| 20 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 21 | The number of dwellings in Great Britain in 1981 was 21.2 million , considerably greater than the number of households , estimated as 19.5 million ( Social Trends 17 , 1987 , Table 2.2 ; Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , 1987 , Table 9 ) . |