Example sentences of "[adj] than [det] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOLLOWING an elderly taxi in London or heavy truck up a country hill , both spewing clouds of acrid smoke , makes it hard to believe that diesel exhausts can be no more harmful than those from a petrol engine that has been fitted with a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 2 | Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one . |
| 3 | The mourning observed for Jacob was only two days shorter than that for a pharaoh . |
| 4 | Those making a decision need also to have in mind that , whilst an electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance , its life expectancy is at present shorter than that of a pipe organ . |
| 5 | The path length a an X-ray ( path A in figure 3.17 ) which strikes the top layer of atoms in a crystal is shorter than that of an X-ray which strikes the second layer ( path B ) . |
| 6 | Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas . |
| 7 | Phage φ29 has a linear genome whose degree of supercoiling in the cell is not known , but it is probably lower than that of a plasmid . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive . |
| 9 | The amounts required for clothing and housing were also set lower than those of a person of working age . |
| 10 | Women with a body mass index under 20 kg/m were less likely to become pregnant than those with an index of 20–24.9 kg/m . |
| 11 | The relationship display in a thesaurus is often more extensive than that in a subject headings list . |
| 12 | She 's beautiful and cute and brighter than most for a five-year-old . ’ |
| 13 | Thus the personal influence of a reprint request may be rather larger than that of an acknowledgment in the form of a citation . |
| 14 | Further , they have greater opportunities to develop their minds and personalities ( the atmosphere of a university campus is more stimulating than that of an assembly line ) , and greater autonomy in deciding how they will organise their work and leisure time . |
| 15 | For example , an animal may be injured and it may be under anaesthetic ; now the welfare of an individual which is under anaesthetic because of the injury — because of the damage to it or perhaps of the reduced life-expectancy — is less good than that of an individual which is not injured . |
| 16 | Whilst sailing in surf you should always keep an eye out for these sets since if you do n't you may suddenly find yourself amongst the larger waves whose ‘ rinse cycles ’ are considerably more vigorous than that of a washing machine . |
| 17 | Now they would pay no more than that on a meal for two . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 19 | A report has recommended that logging in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest region of the USA be cut by more than half as a means of sustaining them in the long term and protecting their wildlife [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 20 | Inside the cabin , the Golf is now looking fairly outdated but the instruments are still easy to use and effective , four adults can be carried in reasonable comfort and the huge boot will swallow more than enough for a weekend away . |
| 21 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |
| 22 | It is a category , as we have seen , which encompasses a range of disabilities from Down 's syndrome ( whose victims may even learn to read or write ) to microcephaly ( where the manifestations of life are no more than those of a vegetable ) and these differences are usually of account . |
| 23 | He was in good shape and in good heart , and although it was known that he did not run up to his best at Cheltenham , the conditions would suit him much more than those of a year ago and few opposed him . |
| 24 | THE two bosses who cut their own pay to less than that of a trainee to preserve jobs set a fine example in these tough times . |
| 25 | Salaried partners Every salaried partner whose name appears on the firm 's stationery without distinction from the equity partners is a " principal " for the purposes of indemnity insurance whose personal responsibility for ensuring that the firm and all its members comply with the Indemnity Rules is no less than that of an equity partner . |
| 26 | Therefore , it is quite possible that the actual amount of stamp duty paid may be considerably less than that on a share sale . |
| 27 | Otters gather a certain amount , but an otter holt is usually a natural hole between rocks or roots , and much smaller than that of a badger . |
| 28 | Among the tiny species that attract attention , the Green-Eyed Rasbora Rasbora dorsiocellata reaches only 6cm in the wild , and tends to remain smaller than this in an aquarium . |
| 29 | I have to confess at this point that my own sensitivity to psychic phenomena is scarcely higher than that of a slab of concrete . |
| 30 | The charge is likely to be higher than that for a parishioner . |