Example sentences of "[adj] than the [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 2 | Investment capital group 3i has made new investments worth £275m in the six months up to March , nearly 90pc more than the figure for the corresponding period a year ago . |
| 3 | His bill will be just £273 — £100 less than the bill for the lowest value property in Langbaurgh . |
| 4 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 5 | Proportionately , the reduction in Wales is less than the average for the United Kingdom as a whole . |
| 6 | Hence , the investor might conclude that Commercial Union was slightly more volatile than comparable firms and earned slightly less than the average for the sector . |
| 7 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |
| 8 | Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas . |
| 9 | A forecast from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development suggests that Japan 's economic growth in 1993 will be higher than the average for the six other leading industrial nations . |
| 10 | Such surety covenant is of value to no one other than the owner for the time being of the reversion … |
| 11 | So viewed , the decision is entirely consistent with the test laid down by Best J. The benefit of the covenant to repay could not touch and concern the land because someone other than the owner for the time being of the term could take the benefit of it … |
| 12 | ( a ) The value of BIOLM and DIOLM should be equal or greater than the value for the defined number of database buffers . |
| 13 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 14 | Neglecting the input current of the operational amplifier in the circuit of figure 10.11(b) compared with the current through resistance R This time , if and for the sinusoidal component of highest frequency present in the equation reduces to Clearly the circuit of figure 10.1 l(b) acts as a differentiator when , which condition is much more easily satisfied than the condition for the corresponding passive circuit of figure 4.11(a) to act as a differentiator . |