Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] than a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lasers run at 300 dots per inch , about four times better than a matrix printer . |
| 2 | I do n't know why they charge three or four pounds more than a vinyl disc for them |
| 3 | Lack of money is holding them back — new sounds have to come from fresh effects pedals rather than a sampling machine — but the ambitions are burning : ‘ I do n't think we actually achieve the crossover , ’ admits Sam , with a who-gives-a-flying- f— -shrug , ‘ but that 's certainly what we want to do . ’ |
| 4 | We used these criteria rather than a disease activity index which incorporates both clinical symptoms ( stool frequency , faecal blood , overall wellbeing ) and endoscopic findings because the patients were not readily available for endoscopy between the yearly evaluations . |
| 5 | Travelling at over 100,000 mph — dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet — it would vapourise on impact , excavating a vast crater hundreds of miles across and filling the atmosphere with scalding steam and rock vapour . |
| 6 | The 15-year-old Eastbourne School fourth former , whose athletic talents were first recognised by PE teacher Simon Hanniford , won the youths 3,000 metres in 9 mins 9.3 secs 10.7 secs better than a BAF grade two standard beating second placed Gregg Scott , of North Shields Polytechnic , by 53 seconds . |