Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] than ever " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Meat and Livestock Commission statistics meat is better value for money than ever |
| 2 | Meat is better value for money than ever — MLC |
| 3 | However , the latest amendments to the Building Regulations require much higher standards of insulation than ever before and have also belatedly recognised the problems that over-insulation can cause as far as condensation is concerned — both inside the house itself and also within the building 's structure . |
| 4 | In fact , they have made it possible to process far greater amounts of data than ever before . |
| 5 | The structural changes which would be necessary to reduce the present Davis Cup match format from three days , to one , would destroy the whole character of a competition which , in this commercially dominated age , is arguably more important to the world of tennis than ever before |
| 6 | But from Rome the British agent sent a warning while Charles was still a boy : ‘ Everybody says that he will be in time a far more dangerous enemy to the present establishment of the government of England than ever his father was . ’ |
| 7 | Locally , it is estimated that more than half the 200 Health Authorities in England and Wales designated a responsible officer , and that there was a greater volume and variety of activity than ever before : traditional courses were supplemented by a new range of imaginative options , to which more managers than ever before had access . |
| 8 | In their black top hats and tailcoats they looked more like vultures than ever . |
| 9 | The Museum 's displays take up the story of Britain 's canals in 1793 — the height of canal mania — the year when more proposals for the building of canals were put before Parliament than ever before . |
| 10 | They also argue that far from there being a decline of religious fervour in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe , there was more interest and deeper involvement in religion than ever before . |
| 11 | But it was n't to be and as a result we now have fewer engineers and probably fewer skilled people in industry than ever before : crumbly foundations to build upon if it is going to be built along the old traditional lines . |
| 12 | The working class is more uniform in origins than ever before because downward mobility has declined . |
| 13 | At the same time , though , working-class people are more uniformly working class in origin than ever . |
| 14 | At some maintenance depots the establishment of specific sub-sector pools led to significant improvements to reliability , even though in many cases the locomotives concerned were travelling further from home than ever before . |
| 15 | But none of this alters the fact that when she died there were more serfs in Russia than ever before and that they were worse treated than under any of her predecessors . |
| 16 | ITN 's cash problems have come at a time when news is more in demand than ever |
| 17 | Nonetheless , consumers and businesses alike are , in the aggregate , deeper in debt than ever before . |
| 18 | After two failed coups in 18 months , the US view is that the general is more entrenched in power than ever . |
| 19 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 20 | Reviewing national programmes , however , raises key and difficult questions for both donors ( why did they not co-operate more effectively ? ) and recipients ( how could they justify a range of prestige projects ? why are they more dependant on aid than ever ? ) |
| 21 | The first and major thrust of the Act is the clause enabling council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a huge discount — not a new trend of either Labour or Conservative housing policy , but certainly it represent a greater encouragement to owner-occupation than ever before . |
| 22 | Hoover 's optimism about the future of the USA had been underlined by the words he used on accepting nomination We in America today are nearer the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land . |
| 23 | Four or five ‘ B ’ and U21 matches a season plus training weekends at full , ‘ B ’ , development and U21 levels mean a bigger commitment to Wales than ever — by baleful coincidence , at the very moment the commitment to clubs has never been bigger . |
| 24 | Simon complains of ‘ the unsuitable blue chosen by Mr Serota ’ for the Tate 's walls and adds : ‘ If there is some deep strategy for this marginalisation of the British collection it is certainly making an impact , for there are fewer pictures on view than ever before . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ More criminals are going to prison than ever before , and the unit of resource has been significantly reduced . ’ |
| 26 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 27 | ‘ I had been aware , ’ Jaffray says , ‘ that there were more people with potential for ballet than ever considered entering a ballet class . ’ |
| 28 | More 16-year-olds are staying on at school than ever before — more than 50 per cent . |
| 29 | In 1773 she had 66 ships of the line : by 1780 , when she had 81 , she was stronger at sea than ever before in her history . |
| 30 | And grew frenzied enough , more than once , to attempt to take her , a half-rape , half-seduction , to which she appeared to submit and then , at the last moment , eluded him ; leaving him more famished and furious and consumed by passion than ever . |