Example sentences of "than [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outlook remains uncertain for P-E though improvement is expected , based on the group 's own performance rather than friendlier market conditions . |
| 2 | In other words , these higher spending areas would have higher Community Charges than lower spending areas . |
| 3 | Top managers tend to be more closely identified with corporate policy than lower level representatives . |
| 4 | Variations in the ability to convert income to a capital gain , plus the fact that such gains are more significant in higher than lower income brackets , means that any favourable treatment they might receive would be inequitable . |
| 5 | Hand written capital letters are easier to read than lower case , or small letters , since the latter usually become highly personalised . |
| 6 | Because modelling is more complex in concept than simpler analysis or record keeping , it is even more important that the software used is powerful enough to look after itself and not burden the user with computing problems . |
| 7 | ‘ It is easier to control the monetary base than broader money , but it is less relevant to do so . ’ |
| 8 | This , it might seem , meant that the government was from that point firmly committed to controlling the monetary base rather than broader liquidity . |
| 9 | His approach to economics and sociology tended to concentrate on personalities or small groups , rather than broader analysis , and he took but a limited interest in the philosophical aspects of history . |
| 10 | When it does , there will be plusses other than cleaner air : |
| 11 | More responses were from adults who had applied to higher education courses than further education ( 66% as against 34% ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It may do no more than further entrench the conspiracy of silence , ’ Armstrong said . |
| 13 | In its latest review of the UK economy , the National Institute calls for a neutral Budget , rather than further interest rate reductions , to maintain the momentum of the nascent economic recovery . |
| 14 | Lightweight papers are cheaper than heavier weight paper . |
| 15 | As regards the cost implications of these shifts , although the over-85s are heavier users of costly services than younger age groups , the heaviest financial cost of the elderly arises from pensions not from services and , to repeat , the total pensionable age group will remain stable for the next two decades . |
| 16 | Property owners , who have now been involuntarily joined by the banks , will need a tonic first , but I shall have already provided it — for what better tonic could that market have than cheaper money ? |
| 17 | The other was a great plan for improved relations : sometimes going no further than better intelligence on a crucial country , sometimes an all-embracing scheme for encouraging moderate successors to Khomeini and saving the country from the Soviet camp . |
| 18 | Avramescu describes an ‘ immediacy effect ’ , whereby recent literature is more highly cited than older literature . |
| 19 | The new vehicles , a Swedish make , are considerably less polluting than older double-decker buses , which in many cases caused pollution well above European Community standards . |
| 20 | Modern publications were consulted by readers much more frequently than older material : 85% of all issues were twentieth-century publications , and 42% had been published only since 1970 . |
| 21 | But it seems likely that influences other than faster scrapping also contributed to the decline in the measured ratio of output to capital . |
| 22 | Accepting only one of the UDHK 'S 20 proposed candidates , he named principally those in favour of stability rather than faster democratization ; however , none of his appointees were backed by China . |
| 23 | More surprisingly , there is some evidence that the more experienced experimenters may induce greater rather than smaller expectancy effects . |
| 24 | While larger diameter stents remain patient longer than smaller diameter ones , many are blocked five to six months after insertion . |
| 25 | The no-load speed of the reel is quoted at 11,000rpm , and the motor was less ‘ buzzy ’ than smaller wattage trimmers . |
| 26 | Chukar-type partridges Alectoris are longer , more upright and slightly more pheasant-like than smaller Perdix , and readily distinguished where they overlap it in W and S Europe by black and white eyestripes , white chin and throat , broad black band extending from eye down neck to form breast-band , conspicuous black and white barring on flanks , and red bill and legs . |
| 27 | This is a similar result to that from the bat-eared fox assemblage and again indicates that the lighter bones with relatively large surface areas are more subject to transport than denser bone . |
| 28 | Others complained that the whole campaign was misguided , arguing that people should have fewer partners rather than safer sex . |
| 29 | Low branch orders of roots can also live longer than higher order roots . |
| 30 | Moreover , lower income groups tend to spend more propor-tionally on their housing than higher income groups ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 5 ) . |