Example sentences of "than [prep] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The planning department 's scanning of business information could duplicate that done by the business units but it was found that the planners were more concerned with understanding the structure of industries and markets rather than with more detailed facts . |
| 2 | The reason they have not been put into wide scale use is their cost electrical power generation from current photovoltaic devices is still 10 times more expensive than from more conventional sources . |
| 3 | To meet some of this demand close to the city , where housing can be better served by public transport , and where journeys to work will be shorter than from more remote areas , some Green Belt land , for example to the south east of the city , will be developed . |
| 4 | That is the old-fashioned type of socialism that the hon. Member for Sheffield , Hillsborough ( Mr. Flannery ) has always pursued , and unfortunately the occupants of the Labour Front Bench have taken a lead from him rather than from more sensible parents . |
| 5 | The extreme oceanicity of the climate of the Western Isles has a profound effect on vegetation , so that montane plants grow at much lower altitudes than in more continental areas . |
| 6 | The key to the success of any rural experiment , however , is publicity — something which will always be that much more difficult in rural areas than in more heavily populated parts of the country . |
| 7 | When a practice enters new markets , or takes on new clients or unfamiliar types of work , accurate costing becomes even more important than in more conventional activities . |
| 8 | In Bijlmermeer itself , for example , Wegman has shown that children under 12 are involved in fewer accidents than in more traditional street layouts . |
| 9 | A related theme in Children 's Minds is that young children often perform less well on experimental tasks than in more natural situations . |
| 10 | However , there is theoretical evidence that the Martian exposure to asteroids was higher over the last few 1000 Ma than in more recent times , which scales the ages down such that all but the more heavily cratered terrain is less than about 2000 Ma old . |
| 11 | But the level was lower and the rush of the flood less severe than in more restricted surroundings , so that that insurmountable dread of drowning gradually subsided . |
| 12 | The case of Riseholme illustrates clearly how the casualties occurred in small settlements rather than in more substantial ones . |
| 13 | Key features such as the timing and extent of simulator usage are based on experience in particular industries rather than on more formal evidence . |
| 14 | In the 1370s the English , lacking good leadership and the necessary commitment of men and money to defend a long frontier ( available money might have been better spent on defence than on more popular campaigns through France ) , soon lost the ground which they had gained by treaty . |
| 15 | They were more akin to circus performers than to more conventional professional sportsmen . |
| 16 | German companies have on occasion preferred to give business to the big universal banks that are their biggest shareholders than to more competitive foreign firms . |