Example sentences of "more [noun] than the average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
2 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
3 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
4 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
5 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |