Example sentences of "[vb pp] far [det] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our costs have risen far more than the increases we have put forward as a result of the devaluation . ’ |
| 2 | Frank had suffered far more than me . |
| 3 | I have said far more than I should have already today . |
| 4 | Trinidad , which now has around a million inhabitants , has also produced far more than its fair share , and it is interesting to note the differences between the two . |
| 5 | In the seventeenth century the broad water of the Thames was used far more than the narrow and often bad roads for practical transport and festive occasions . |
| 6 | In those circumstances , does he really think that a dying Parliament , a week after the Maastricht summit , should empower a lame-duck Prime Minister to use the royal prerogative to sign that treaty without any consultation with the British people whose rights will be affected far more than this Parliament ? |
| 7 | This ability is impaired far more than other aspects of the patient 's language . |
| 8 | This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper . |
| 9 | In brief , sex inequalities in relation to university education have narrowed far more than socio-economic inequalities . |
| 10 | The weak intensity is caused by upward continuation through the mantle : the small-scale non-dipolar transition field is attenuated far more than the axial dipole . |
| 11 | Drab and perhaps a little the worse for wear , sedate in unpretentious boards or cloth , they are cherished far more than copies reclothed and bedecked in elegant calf and morocco . |
| 12 | Egyptian sculptors had long known far more than their first Greek emulators about the structure of the human body , but the general effect of their work is ( as it was surely meant to be ) much less alive . |
| 13 | And Europe , with its disgraceful feline past , has provided far less than its fair share . |
| 14 | Her frock , which had cost far less than one of her hats in her old life , was a short-sleeved model in navy blue , with a sailor 's collar in navy blue and white silk , and had anchors embroidered around the hem of her skirt . |
| 15 | Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today . |
| 16 | This can mean that a subscriber can be charged far more than he should be and I gather that some regions even add in the hours that trainee engineers work as well . |
| 17 | But young farm workers today are part of the post-war generation of rural inhabitants who have been subjected far more than preceding generations to the cultural influences and judgements of wider society . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in their analysis of the effect of government policy on economic performance , market economists have learned far less than Keynesian economists from the accumulated evidence of the past hundred years . |
| 19 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 20 | Amber Film 's latest success , Dream On , has achieved far more than most , with its inspiring blend of magic and realism . |
| 21 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |
| 22 | He had lost far more than her . |
| 23 | For example , suppose that airline pilots are paid far more than their transfer earnings , but that it always takes three pilots ( pilot equivalents ) to fly a plane . |
| 24 | The theological implications of such a recognition were profound , and required far more than a change in regulations . |