Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business of the audition is squeezed into all this in less time than it takes to shake a leg . |
| 2 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 3 | Collective amnesia is far more prevalent in this culture than we would pretend . |
| 4 | I seem to be more nervous in that way than I once was . |
| 5 | Empowerment on the shop floor appears to be more widespread in Japanese enterprises than it does in the bureaucratically conceived Fordist structures of Western modernity . |
| 6 | I would say that it is better in many respects than it was ’ . |
| 7 | Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage . |
| 8 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 9 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 10 | Although incomes in the 1980s were substantially higher in real terms than they were at the end of the 1950s , there has been no sustained decrease in inequality ; in fact , as we saw in chapter 5 ( figure 5.5 ) , income inequality in Britain increased sharply after 1976 . |
| 11 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979 . |
| 12 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979-80 . |
| 13 | This supposition conflicts with the conclusions of students of the geomorphology of the lands , who usually regard sea level as being much higher in that period than it is now . |
| 14 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |
| 15 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 16 | The problem is worse in some areas than it is in others but , as Karan and Iijima ( 1985 ) point out , soil erosion is particularly acute where steep slopes are cultivated without terracing . |
| 17 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 18 | Most bereaved people soon begin to discover that grief does not settle in their life like a gravestone , permanent and immovable : it lives , moves and changes , like all great emotions , and they finally emerge from it not crippled , but stronger in many ways than they were before , in spite of their loss . |
| 19 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 20 | The Minister will probably claim that the decline in the number of smokers is greater in this country than it is in Italy and in France . |
| 21 | Though an edge is given to the violins , making them sound less sweet in exposed passages than they should , the recording has a fullness and warmth to bring out the brilliance and refinement of the orchestration . |