Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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1 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
2 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
3 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
4 | Launer , which carries the Royal Warrant , offers far more than just the style for which the Queen is famous . |
5 | More than likely the explanation for such results lay simply in the fact that the elderly , institutionalized patients who formed Cameron 's subjects were so pleased to be noticed and made a fuss of in experiments of this sort that their memories improved as a consequence . |
6 | The existence of economies of scale in family life ( bulk buying , spreading fixed costs , etc. ) means that , although two can not live as cheaply as one ( it seems to us at least ) , cohabitation means that a given per capita standard can be maintained for two at less than double the expenditure for one . |