Example sentences of "[verb] far [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he created far more than he is ever given credit for … ’ |
| 2 | The OALD prides itself on the number and quality of its examples — it contains far more than any comparable dictionary . |
| 3 | If the agouti finds one , it is likely to find far more than it can eat at a single sitting . |
| 4 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 5 | It tasted far worse than I imagine my four-day-old socks would — a memorable moment remembered for the wrong reason , not least for the expression of anguish on Pete 's face as the brew hit his tonsils . |
| 6 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 7 | I suspect that the Prime Minister and the other Ministers would agree with our great national poet , William Shakespeare , that ’ Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds . ’ |
| 8 | No , ’ the brief self-mocking laugh seemed to tear at this throat , ‘ I want far more than that . |
| 9 | We need to know far more than we currently do about the organised abuse of children — and we need to find out from survivors , both child and adult . |
| 10 | For me , the study of Earth Mysteries covers far more than some long-forgotten people and the monuments they left : it is firmly rooted in the present and in our own relationship to the Earth . |
| 11 | Yes , it matters far more than most people have grasped in this trivialised campaign . |
| 12 | A fox in a chicken run , faced with such an unnaturally generous supply of food , will release its instinct to kill until all the birds are dead , and it has far more than it can possibly cope with . |
| 13 | Craig Walker now has far more than his native Dublin and its age-barred ghetto to examine and write about . |
| 14 | Still , Auntie could have done far worse than that . |
| 15 | This interrelation of various disciplines is fundamental to science : the word ‘ science ’ itself derives from a Latin word meaning ‘ knowledge ’ — a term that embraces far more than the circumscribed disciplines just mentioned . |
| 16 | Our costs have risen far more than the increases we have put forward as a result of the devaluation . ’ |
| 17 | Frank had suffered far more than me . |
| 18 | Nearly all are open nine hours a day , five days a week , 47 weeks a year , and cost far less than private nurseries . |
| 19 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 20 | I have said far more than I should have already today . |
| 21 | Now Mr Major is expected to announce that the Trident submarines will carry far fewer than the expected 512 warheads . |
| 22 | He worked for the team and scored far more than he missed . |
| 23 | Anyone who wants to learn to paint with oils could do far worse than follow the advice of ‘ the fastest knife in the West ’ , Nancy Kominsky , as MIRANDA FELLOWS found out |
| 24 | Their first baby , who was to cause far more than labour pains , arrived in mid-May 1939 . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , these woods have seen far worse than Medoc and the Twelve Lords , ’ said Lugh airily , who happened to be listening to this . |
| 26 | ‘ We ought none of us to lose sight of the fact that human beings count far more than institutions or procedures or precedents , and we ought always to be willing , given justification , to sacrifice the latter to the former . ’ |
| 27 | However , elite collusion can and does entail far more than agreement on the ‘ rules of the game ’ . |
| 28 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 29 | A local rag did a write-up : ‘ As a testimony to their good eating , they look far younger than their ages ’ . |
| 30 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |