Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leon Kennedy 's lips restrained more than a smile . |
| 2 | And if you go and have a look at the tables , you find that Abbey Life actually makes your money grow faster than a lot of other insurance companies . |
| 3 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 4 | Interest is paid at maturity except for CDs lasting longer than a year , in which case interest is paid annually . |
| 5 | The sound echoed longer than a cuckoo 's call . |
| 6 | Integration of primary and secondary care is central to an internal market driven by primary care and should encourage a needs led rather than a service dominated approach . |
| 7 | Will it not encourage the image of a model singing rather than a singing model ? |
| 8 | If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier . |
| 9 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 10 | The problem revealed by the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee led unquestionably to a view of family allowances as incentives to work rather than an encouragement to depend unduly on unemployment benefit . |
| 11 | As far as is possible it is preferable to charge the actual cost incurred rather than a percentage assessment to the cost accounts . |
| 12 | Six firemen took more than an hour to bring the fire under control . |