Example sentences of "than [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had planned the whole scheme and ought to have a better idea than me of what was going to happen . |
| 2 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 3 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 4 | They talked freely together about everything , about her sad life , her worries , her bad health , about how foul the world was , and it was more illuminating than plenty of conversations he had had with educated folk . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean — well , I 've been no worse than plenty of other guys , but anyway it 's — irrelevant now . ’ |
| 6 | Whenever Harris talks of his human rights work , he repeatedly states than none of it could continue without Amnesty 's campaigning — the thousands and thousands of letters landing on the desk of the Guatemalan President , the faxes , the questions in Parliament . |
| 7 | Now the director — like most people in East Germany — is so busy adapting to the transition to a market economy and to the West German Deutsch Mark than none of his undertakings has been honoured . |
| 8 | It was a reminder than none of us is safe from the car thieves . |
| 9 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 10 | If I were Mrs Douglas and had put up with years of a philandering , self-important husband I think I might consider I was more deserving than him of the luxury away-from-it-all fortnight 's vacation . |
| 11 | Though the news of her ‘ engagement ’ could not possibly have come from any other source than he of the ‘ My office — now ’ order . |
| 12 | Ask your Redken stylist about the possibility of using TRUST or Vector Plus on large perm rods to give volume and control rather than lots of curl . |
| 13 | To minimise the chances of failure , make sure you have a few big Mobs rather than lots of small ones . |
| 14 | Perhaps lack of guilt , rather than lots of wine and foie gras , accounts for most of the difference . |
| 15 | In 1991 it offered handsome tax incentives to encourage the creation of big trading companies that would do the job more efficiently than lots of little sellers . |
| 16 | You could use different shades of the same colour , rather than lots of different colours . |
| 17 | ’ Bigger than lots of things . |