Example sentences of "than [art] usual [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a good deal more attractive than the usual Pahlavi type of greed . |
| 2 | Also , the alphabetical author/title arrangement is less helpful than the usual classified sequence of national bibliographies . |
| 3 | So I collect my own granite gravel here in Devon , from an area where it contains a rather nice orange feldspar , and is thus a warm colour rather than the usual light grey of garden centre granite . |
| 4 | Muslim fundamentalists demanded the death sentence be carried out by stoning or crucifixion rather than the usual Moroccan method of a firing squad . |
| 5 | THE AUDEN GENERATION by Samuel Hynes Pimlico , £12 THIS literary history of England in the Thirties ( a decade often looked back upon nostalgically as the most recent time when literary giants still stalked the land ) is more than the usual glib account of the rise to fame of that precocious composite poet MacSpaunday . |