Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 2 | The modern tail and underwater shapes will enable you to make progress in stronger wind and sail far quicker than if you use a wide square-tailed board with a flat bottom . |
| 3 | Some wheats require a period of cold weather and short days if they are to yield well ; these are autumn sown , stand over winter and ripen much earlier than spring-grown varieties . |
| 4 | There is a clear sense of recession , with paler tones dominating at the top of the canvas and appearing further away than the more densely coloured foreground . |
| 5 | Both plays tell the universal and timeless tale of family relationships and how , when supposedly they are a place of union , harmony , love and protection , they are in fact in reality a source of discord and suffering more often than not . |
| 6 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 7 | They have a pleasant , slightly sweet flavour and cook more quickly than other dried beans . |
| 8 | She enjoyed attending to the whitewashed chapel where compulsory prayers were conducted three times a day and did not feel ill-used when Mrs Prynn chastised her with a whip for letting slip a blasphemy or lying abed longer than she ought . |
| 9 | Salaries were now arranged in a more systematic hierarchy and paid more regularly than in the past . |
| 10 | In a union in which both the lobon-gur solution and the rice-salt solution had been taught , LGS was also preferred over the rice-salt therapy , despite the recognition by the mothers of the fact that children treated with the latter recovered from diarrhoea and vomiting more quickly than those treated with LGS . |
| 11 | And , in the Franks Report on ministerial handling of the conflict , we have an archive which not only shortens dramatically the interval before the normal release of classified information but goes considerably further than any disclosures at the end of the statutory thirty years in the amount of intelligence material displayed . |
| 12 | In her view , women in rock fought against male supremacy and got little further than choosing their earrings , with the moneymen conspiring to craft an image suitable for their market . |
| 13 | But this peripheral vision processes input very fast , with visual information reaching the brain and mind more rapidly than from the binocular area . |
| 14 | Moving into summer , he took advantage of the dry weather and lived more outdoors than in , drawing the same subjects repeatedly if they appealed to him , toiling incessantly in an effort to improve himself . |