Example sentences of "than any of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Than any of her lineaments can show her . |
| 2 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 3 | With paperback sales of 200,000 and rising , far more than any of his previous titles , the novel was jostling in the lists this summer with Jeffrey Archer and Wilbur Smith . |
| 4 | On the second day of the magazine 's appeal for a retrial of the libel action in which Mrs Sutclife was awarded £600,000 , Geoffrey Shaw , her counsel , said : ‘ This woman has undergone more stress since 1981 than any of us are every likely to undergo . |
| 5 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 6 | Union leaders were told recently that the Essex plant , which currently produces the Sierra and the Fiesta , was experiencing more stoppages than any of the company 's plants in Europe and that quality levels were also the worst . |
| 7 | Despite the disparaging views of some policemen , these women have a harder job than any of the ‘ Action Men ’ in the riot police units . |
| 8 | That moment seems in retrospect to have been more exciting than any of the films that followed . |
| 9 | Although she has deplored leaks — and instituted more leak inquiries and prosecuted more civil servants for breaches of confidentiality than any of her predecessors her press office appears to have developed the technique of leaking against fellow Cabinet ministers to a fine art . |
| 10 | Nodding , Wexford eyed the paying-in book over Burden 's shoulder and what he saw astonished him far more than any of Hatton 's prodigality . |
| 11 | And , almost more than any of his other fiction , it reveals what Lewis as a writer was chiefly concerned to achieve . |
| 12 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 13 | It had a lower recorded crime rate per 100,000 people than any of the 41 police areas in England and Wales . |
| 14 | For a gentle corrective one could do worse than go back to H.L. Mencken who opined that Alexander Graham Bell — the progenitor of the institution in which Penzias holds sway — and Thomas Alva Edison had done more than any of their contemporaries to add to the sum of life 's damned nuisances . |
| 15 | My favourites tend to be the beans that have a flavour of their own , especially flageolet beans which are a delicate green colour and have a subtle , fresh flavour ; they are , however , rather more expensive than any of the other varieties . |
| 16 | Because Cheddar has been the yardstick of the British cheese industry , it has perhaps suffered more than any of our other cheeses , as it has been forced into mediocrity through extensive mechanisation of the various stages of making . |
| 17 | The past month has seen more violence and death than any of the student groups had anticipated . |
| 18 | And it can fly supersonically using only its normal engines ; with no gas-guzzling afterburners to feed , it can go much farther at such speeds than any of today 's machines . |
| 19 | He was to play 58 Tests in all , taking 259 wickets at just under 21 , a lower average than any of the top West Indian bowlers except Marshall . |
| 20 | Just for her own satisfaction she pulled the very worst one she could think of — worse than any of Oz 's — with her cheeks blown out , her eyes crossed and the tip of her tongue protruding . |
| 21 | More than any of the other major characters in the great story from Genesis to Kings Moses has a tendency to know what he is talking about . |
| 22 | The story of the golden calf is not quite a complaint story , though it is more terrible than any of them , and as it proceeds shares many of their features , particularly those of the one in Numbers 14 . |
| 23 | Science is no more dead than any of its rivals , but flip through Omni , the most successful science glossy , and it 's clear that the appeal has changed . |
| 24 | More successful than any of these methods , however , looks to be a new biological weapon , a nematode . |
| 25 | Afterwards , she had learned that he was an important man , more important than any of the visitors , who seemed to smile and bob to him , and sidle up to take his attention . |
| 26 | Because Roirbak had built the machine to appear humanoid , more so than any of the others in the building , it was like seeing a real dead body lying there . |
| 27 | Simply , the Queen has spent far more of her life at the heart of politics than any of the party leaders . |
| 28 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 29 | Culshaw , who knew Karajan better than any of these armchair pundits , noted that since Karajan had never been interested in interpretation for interpretation 's sake — which perhaps helps explain why his readings often outlast those of more ‘ personalized ’ rivals — he naturally diverted his attention to new projects , musical , technological , scientific , logistical , until circumstances or new thinking drew him back to the central repertoire that he had recorded earlier , with other orchestras , other technology . |
| 30 | The Isolde was Germaine Lubin — gracious , noble , the most wonderful Isolde I have ever encountered , better than any of those endless German cannons who have sung the role . |