Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] more than [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the most important thing is to make clear , I 'm hoping to make clear somewhere that next year this council will have a members allowance budget which is one and a half percent more than this year , at the maximum , and it may not even have that I 'm not certain that we 've agreed that with the policy committee , I do n't know if anybody knows if we have |
| 2 | the third heaven I thought it I think , I 've , I 've looked in the re the aid book , what does the third heaven , it was er it was more of a , a dream , more of a sym symbolic dream more than natural reality of vision of heaven do you know what I mean ? |
| 3 | On this plane , too , you will notice that neighbouring biomorphs resemble each other more than distant biomorphs . |
| 4 | In Escape from Childhood ( 1974 ) , John Holt notes that children are , in fact , capable of a great deal more than modern society allows them to be . |
| 5 | The middle-school initiative , as it gathered momentum in the 1960s , was concerned with a great deal more than legalistic terminology . |
| 6 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 7 | Thatcher 's government places liberty at a much lower level , it makes freedom just another preference , just something that some people want a great deal more than most people do , just something else to be balanced out with an eye to majority opinion and the next election … |
| 8 | White men on average earn a good deal more than black men , although the earnings differential between different groups of women is much less . |
| 9 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 10 | Opted-out hospitals will not be able to borrow on the capital markets or pay junior staff more than other hospitals . |
| 11 | As Table 55c of Appendix I shows , although differences between groups were very small , it was often women more than men , older people more than younger people , and those with lower rather than higher educational levels who most often changed to a different choice after they were given the extra information about APR and/ or total credit cost . |