Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun sg] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You try making anything out of that and you 'll find yourself up to your neck in more trouble than you can handle ! ’ |
| 2 | Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) . |
| 3 | This year , the phoenix has risen from its ashes , a phoenix in brighter plumage than he has ever worn before . |
| 4 | Obviously , you will need much heavier tackle when fishing in snaggy water than you will in open water . |
| 5 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 6 | His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality . |
| 7 | They can work at speed , and make several passes in less time than it would take to plough the same area with mould-board equipment . |
| 8 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 9 | P.S. A rainforest tree can be felled with a chainsaw in less time than it has taken you to read this letter . |
| 10 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
| 11 | They take their place in better shape than they themselves would have been without the privilege of working a 12 step programme . |
| 12 | The development of occupational pension schemes , and the rapid increase of owner-occupation since the 1950s , has given many elderly people far more economic security in old age than they ever had when they were reliant on the sale of their labour power . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman also knows that we have provided more additional resources in this Parliament than he was even prepared to promise in his last election manifesto . |
| 14 | Better still , if you are in a position to present these baits on tackle to fish you can see , then you may learn more about fish behaviour in one hour than you would in a season of fishing ‘ blind ’ . |
| 15 | it is true that it is currently harder for me to get any kind of sympathetic press coverage in this country than it is anywhere else in Europe . ’ |
| 16 | Ian can blast this cruise missile on wheels to 100mph in less time than it takes the average family car to reach 30mph . |
| 17 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 18 | Swell and ripen And the fruit must be able to swell and ripen and achieve their flavour in more sunshine than we can generally expect in August and September . |
| 19 | They lost Joe Allon and Rob McKinnon , yet they ended the season in better shape than they started it : a comfortable 11th in the Third Division , the highest Football League placing in their history . |
| 20 | So history 's a very much broader and more popular subject in this country than I think it is in almost any other country in the world . |
| 21 | There are more threads in this web than you even know yet ; more than you could understand ; more than you would ever forgive . |
| 22 | There 's more humans in this place than I 've ever seen before . |
| 23 | This is known as ‘ translational lift ’ and accounts for the fact that a helicopter requires less power to maintain height in forward flight than it does in the hover ( Fig. 5.4 ) . |
| 24 | And this remains throughout life , for the old occupy a much higher status in primitive society than they do in societies like ours . |
| 25 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 26 | The airport is 20 minutes from the middle of town and you are in your hotel in less time than it takes to get your luggage at Heathrow . |
| 27 | I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined . |
| 28 | It is usually possible to read subtitles in less time than it takes the characters to complete the exchange . |
| 29 | That such conclusions have nevertheless been drawn tells us more about the strength of the anti-democratic tradition in European thought than it does about Athenian democracy . |
| 30 | Even Charlie felt things were on the up when Mrs Smelley 's smiling face appeared , to buy more potatoes for her boarding house in one morning than he would normally have hoped to sell a regular customer in a month . |