Example sentences of "[adv prt] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the outer boundary of the greenbelt proposed by the County Council , slightly closer in than the existing outer boundary at that point , is coterminous with the boundary of the grenade throwing range . |
| 2 | Climbers , ramblers and larger growing shrub roses can be expected to grow away and quickly make more top growth early on than the bush types . |
| 3 | However , he wrote , for that very reason , the right hand side should have been even more solid , even more thought through than the left . |
| 4 | Choose a heavy feeding bowl which is less likely to be knocked over than a stainless steel container . |
| 5 | If the duty were held to be unexcludable , this would have the odd effect that a trespasser to premises not in business use could be better off than a visitor . |
| 6 | In many ways I am better off than the others , I work downstairs . |
| 7 | In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all . |
| 8 | Czechoslovakia is better off than the other East European nations and has committed 2 per cent of its investment to environmental projects , but there once again are to be found the same dreary environmental statistics of rivers poisoned , sewage untreated , sulphur dioxide deposited and trees dying , even if the figures are not quite so bad as elsewhere . |
| 9 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're better off than the others , if you take on Gary 's horse . |
| 11 | But they 're still better off than the other Arabs , the ones that do n't work for the French . |
| 12 | Although those older workers in full-time employment were substantially better off than other groups , the early retired were better off than the rest . |
| 13 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 14 | In Cornwall and Worcestershire even the unbeneficed clergy were better off than the average , the overall position being that of an affluent clerical establishment alongside a relatively poor laity . |
| 15 | I 've chased more people off than the security has . |
| 16 | Merciful provision must be made for those who failed to do so , but the failures must never be better off than the successes . |
| 17 | Where is equity when the idle are better off than the diligent ? |
| 18 | No sooner had they been fought off than the east monsoon brought a fresh invasion from the kingdoms of the Moluccas . |
| 19 | So the family , we as a family were better off than the majority of er of families er in so far that er er whilst we were a a fair sized family , we did have at least some income , in the form of unemployment pay er that my father received . |
| 20 | The Tutworker could have a reasonable income which was more or less guaranteed ; the Tributer was more in a position of winning or losing ; the Day Workers , with the lowest wages , were only hired as required but even so were better off than the local farm labourer ; bearing in mind that the mine was not a particularly unhealthy one . |
| 21 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 22 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 23 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 24 | That poverty persists despite these efforts is less a reason to give up than a reason to learn from what works and what does not . |
| 25 | The tushes come through when the horse is between three and four years old , the upper ones being set higher up than the lower ones . |
| 26 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |
| 27 | It was a much longer way back than the road . |
| 28 | But the declaration is going to take longer to work out than the Japanese had hoped . |
| 29 | These are more spaced out than the ones in Exodus , and the next one does not appear till chapter 14 . |
| 30 | The distribution of life expectancy across countries is not symmetrical : the lower half of the distribution is more spread out than the upper half ( figure 11.7 ) ; many countries are pushing up against what looks like some kind of a ceiling of around seventy-seven years , while some poorer countries trail down in the forties and two countries ( Sierra Leone and Guinea ) even and leaf display of raw data register a staggering thirty-eight years . |