Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student population at polytechnics is growing much faster than that of universities . |
| 2 | The rise in long-term unemployment and the increase in child poverty since the mid 1970s is likely to mean that the health of the lower social classes is improving more slowly than it should and would have done , rather than that it is getting worse . |
| 3 | The structural explanation of social problems is pursued more thoroughly than in a developmental model . |
| 4 | Moreover , the overhang of unsold properties is evaporating much faster than expected . |
| 5 | Alcohol in fizzy drinks is absorbed more quickly than alcohol in still drinks . |
| 6 | It presumed that the particular classroom layouts and patterns of organization commended would promote children 's learning more effectively than any others . |
| 7 | The sum of the probabilities for space to which records have not been allocated , P EMPTY , is : The rest of the total file area must therefore hold home records , i.e. ( Note : The proportion of the file area that contains home records is calculated indirectly rather than directly , because the sum of home record probabilities is made up of an infinite series , while that of the empty positions is finite , as is clear from equation ( 6.13 ) . ) |