Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 2 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 3 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 4 | Thereafter , however , their share increased steadily until by 1850 this market was more important than either the European or North American market , in both of which home cotton manufacture had become significant . |
| 5 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
| 6 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 7 | They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts . |
| 8 | But regarding 2 this teacher was not especially charismatic — in fact more self-effacing than naturally the centre of attention . |
| 9 | Hiring by the week is usually a little less than twice the cost of hiring by the day . |
| 10 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 11 | Launer , which carries the Royal Warrant , offers far more than just the style for which the Queen is famous . |
| 12 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
| 13 | His view that letting children run in and out of busy airports smartly avoiding the traffic is perfectly reasonable depends upon a conception of a child which is far narrower than even the sex divide . |
| 14 | Today more than ever the phrase " as old as one feels " is no mere consolatory cliche . ) |