Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 2 | It is a situation much worse than the one Smith found himself in before the game with FC Brugge two weeks ago and could involve some drastic re-organisation . |
| 3 | A covering letter also expresses concern that a government agency had shipped 500 litres of plutonium nitrate through the Minch recently and that the pollution caused by such a cargo would be much worse than the 85,000 tonnes of light oil spilt by the Braer off Shetland . |
| 4 | Turning to the sex of known opioid users , the 3.6:1 male to female ratio found for Wirral opioid users is somewhat higher than the 2.7:1 ratio found for problem drug users ( mostly heroin users ) in both Brighton and South Tyneside , and the 2:1 ratio reported for opioid users in both Bristol and Leeds . |
| 5 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 6 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 7 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 8 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 9 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 10 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 11 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 12 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 13 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 14 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 15 | Fujitsu Ltd sources say that the machine being developed by Hal Computer Systems Inc in the US will be significantly more powerful than the 300 MIPS that has been reported — but 300 MIPS was for one of its Sparc chips . |
| 16 | ‘ I should , but this is more important than a dozen shows . |
| 17 | In the tsar 's view , the new assignment was much more important than the one Paskevich had just completed . |
| 18 | In that respect , Willy Russell has accomplished a considerably trickier feat than Dame Edna : his Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show in which the show is more important than the one woman . |
| 19 | These were more numerous and more complicated than the two groups of conformist and non-conformist boys identified by Willis . |
| 20 | Recording quality is once again hardly subtle , but it is far more vivid than the 1962 version once available on EMI ; beware a glitch in the second movement at 1′21″ which causes a fraction of a beat to be lost , possibly in order to edit out a particularly hacking cough . |
| 21 | Could cars be designed to be much more efficient than the eighteen percent you quote ? |
| 22 | Our arguments on Friday , and still are , that we believe the two tier system is educationally beneficial than the three tier . |
| 23 | That implies the establishment of some form of institute — if that is not too grandiose a word — some form of organisation , more permanent than a one week ad hoc seminar , such as we have at present . |
| 24 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |
| 25 | A 4-1 defeat was marginally better than the 5-1 setback on Tuesday against the side who will be England 's key rivals for a semi-final place in their World Cup group in February . |
| 26 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the Wirral ratio is also higher than the 2.4:1 ratio characterising new narcotic addicts notified to the Home Office in 1984 . |
| 28 | In 1948 , a little less than a million households were drawing national assistance . |
| 29 | It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting . |
| 30 | Lancashire colliers seem to have been able to earn around 1s 9d ( 8½p ) a day by 1786 , rather less than the 2s 3d ( 11p ) then being earned on the Yorkshire coalfield , let alone the 3s ( 15p ) for which Staffordshire miners were then striking . |