Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 2 | A hyaena 's nasal membranes have a surface area fifty times bigger and the richness of the information they can gather is so great and varied that it is difficult for us to appreciate it . |
| 3 | It makes matters worse that the Secretary of State for Education and Science can not even understand that . |
| 4 | They stretched in great flocks wider than the whole of the Zoo . |
| 5 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 6 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 7 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 8 | The girl in black was nineteen , five years older than the boy to whom she was bringing her petition . |
| 9 | But he was eleven years older and a father of two — surely he would not take up arms ? |
| 10 | THERE are n't many sounds worse than the squalling of a baby . |
| 11 | The diameter of a full stop ( period ) character in ordinary type is 0.06cm , so a ray of red light would have a wavelength 92000 times smaller than the diameter of a full stop . |
| 12 | Safety standards for future nuclear power stations should be set so that risks to the public are ten times smaller than the danger of a road accident , according to new proposals published by the Health and Safety Executive ( HSE ) , the British industrial safety regulatory body . |
| 13 | Upthrusts of men and women forced cones of tangled , crushed bodies higher than the rest of the mass . |
| 14 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 15 | The odds against a " yes " answer for questions like Question 1 are many billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the universe . |
| 16 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 17 | In his book he played with various figures — unemployment equal to vacancies , vacancies greater than the number of unemployed — and settled for 3% unemployment ( 1% frictional , 1% seasonal and 1% for the unavoidable variations in foreign demand for British goods ) . |
| 18 | And the wealthiest woman in the country , shipping heiress CHRISTINE GOULANDRIS , is almost three times richer than the monarch with a fortune of £290 million . |
| 19 | ‘ Good God , ’ said this devout Welshman , ‘ this will do for many of the Navy boys worse than the sinking of their own ships , they will have no wives and children to come home to ! ’ |