Example sentences of "far [det] than [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 2 | This argument is meaningful only for lines longer than , say , 40 km as the inherent discrepancy is so slight on shorter distances that the error on the ground is far less than the sizes of marker sites involved . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 5 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 6 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 7 | This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper . |
| 8 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 9 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 10 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Kingfisher has prospered , embracing far more than the relics of the British end of Frank Winfield Woolworth 's creation . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , this claustrophobia was intensified by a growing sense that critical events were taking place elsewhere in the world , events which would shape France 's future far more than the decisions of the Constituent Assembly . |
| 13 | ‘ Far more than the flowers of the mid-sixties , ’ he claimed , ‘ the angry clenched fists of the late sixties were irrelevant in trying to reach an increasingly alarmed and uncomprehending public . ’ |
| 14 | Similarly , Margaret Thatcher 's reaction to the Brixton and Toxteth riots captured the public mood far more than the analysis of the Opposition . |
| 15 | Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber . |
| 16 | In Britain , heavier lorries failed to pay an equitable share of the infrastructural costs of the road network while passenger transport was favoured by tax incentives for company cars equivalent to far more than the value of the annual rail subsidy ( TEST 1984a ; Potter and Cousins 1983 ; Bagwell 1984 ; ch. 1 ) . |
| 17 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 18 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |