Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [prep] [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the proportion is down to less than a quarter , and falling . |
| 2 | ( Died of Parkinson 's disease and pneumonia aged 73 within 24 hours of being readmitted to hospital after being in an old people 's home for less than a month . ) |
| 3 | There 's more to this than a missing husband , is n't there ? ’ |
| 4 | Compared with 10 years ago , at the same point in the economic cycle , output is up by nearly a quarter , investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half and manufacturing exports are up by nearly three quarters . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman knows that if we compare the position now with that of 10 years ago — at the same stage of the economic cycle — we see that manufacturing output is up by a quarter , manufacturing investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half , and manufactured exports are up by almost three quarters . |
| 6 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 7 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 8 | It is not the fact that a coin is often worth more than the value of the bullion it contains . |