Example sentences of "[noun] [adj -er] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 2 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 3 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 4 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 5 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 6 | I found it boring , self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it 's based . |
| 7 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 8 | The thin plastic flange in the centre of the connectors must be removed with a pair of pliers , to enable it to slide completely over the new , smaller piece of pipe , which should be cut 10 to 20mm shorter than the measured gap . |
| 9 | We dug the pit a little more than 100mm larger all round , and 75mm deeper than the finished size . |
| 10 | • A zinc layer of 350g/m 2 , 25% thicker than the commercial standard gives extra corrosion resistance . |
| 11 | Alan Milburn , said official department of employment figures showed that over the last two years youth unemployment has increased over 40pc faster than the general rise . |
| 12 | The rate of conception in the 11–15 age group was almost 40pc higher than the national average and in the 16–19 age bracket , it was around 34pc higher . |
| 13 | Again , there is no charge for purchases other than paying an exchange rate 2 p.c. or 3 p.c. worse than the wholesale money market rate . |
| 14 | The whole incident made the short cut longer than the long cut but in time we reached the approach to the camp , much to the relief of Hassan who seemed to have less and less faith in the Second Son 's navigation . |
| 15 | So you said here to replace the two pipes , the sort of medium pipe and the small pipe you 'll have one that 's a bit bigger than the big pipe . |
| 16 | Yes that 's right , it might have even been a little bit bigger than the back room , but very seldom used . |
| 17 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 18 | It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 . |
| 19 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 20 | Her head is large with a substantial brain many times bigger than the tiny knot of nerve cells that is all that a worker possesses . |
| 21 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |
| 22 | The six-axle lorries " six tonnes heavier than the current limit " will only be allowed to transfer freight to and from rail terminals . |
| 23 | Colours can be defined in a relative way , e.g. 20% redder than the containing colour . |
| 24 | Thus similar cars from WG would be £1,200 cheaper than the UK-made car , and UK cars would be selling for DM39,600 in WG , i.e. DM3,600 dearer than the equivalent car made in WG ( year 2a ) . |
| 25 | The new compiler is said to be some 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler . |
| 26 | The compiler is reportedly 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler . |
| 27 | The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion . |
| 28 | Greenpeace alleged in September 1990 that illegal toxic waste imports to the UK were three times larger than the legal trade . |
| 29 | Greenpeace has published an analysis showing that an illicit trade in toxic waste exists which is estimated to be three times larger than the legal trade . |
| 30 | However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured . |