Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two decades on either side of 1500 were comparatively stable , with wages being only a little lower than in the middle of the fifteenth century , but by the second decade of the sixteenth they began to decline in face of increasing prices . |
| 2 | Summit gravity increases were smaller , suggesting either that frothy magma resided in the main feeder conduit or that the magma level was much lower than before the eruption . |
| 3 | A similar system is in operation in many countries , with the key exception of the US , where book prices are much lower than in the UK . |
| 4 | But with oil prices now much lower than in the mid-1970s , the cost to the government is much higher than that of petrol . |
| 5 | The trouble was that their general educational standard was much lower than in the past . |
| 6 | As a result , the breccia fragments are surrounded by a mud matrix and rocks are only of marginal reservoir quality with porosities and permeabilities that are much lower than in the collapse breccias of Auk and Argyll . |
| 7 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |
| 8 | This combination of light industry and agriculture is probably typical of the suburbs where pressure on land was less acute than in the centre . |
| 9 | Revisionist work in this area is less advanced than on the events of 1917 itself , but it has begun to unravel the process which led to the rapid breakdown of the broad popular alliance of October , the metamorphosis of the Bolshevik party , and the transformation in the nature of its power . |
| 10 | Inclusion of the GFF and LPF into the bigram experiments appears to be less stable than for the trigram experiments — the number of top ranked correct words tends to drop for the bigram cases but remains almost constant for the trigram cases . |
| 11 | This surely suggests that in the more distant demes — Eleusis with its great sanctuary and fortifications , or Rhamnous and Sounion with their temples of Nemesis and Poseidon ( ML 53 = Fornara 90B for the treasury accounts of Rhamnousian Nemesis ) — the city 's magnetic pull was less strong than in a deme close to the city , like , say , Kolonos . |
| 12 | Public opinion , in an age which increasingly liked to think itself morally superior to its predecessors , was sometimes less willing than in the past to tolerate activities of this kind . |
| 13 | Kemp 's voice was no less clear than during the phone conversation . |
| 14 | All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK . |
| 15 | In no area , colleagues , is the despair caused by Tory mismanagement more abundantly clear than in the area of welfare benefits . |
| 16 | The solutions offered by the Nazi Party were no less simple than in the Reich , but isolation , the proximity of Poland and the effects of the Depression gave the hopes and fears of the borderlands a personal intensity and meaning quite different from those in the Reich . |
| 17 | In some areas we have measured a contamination which is much bigger than in the Minimata incident in the Japan . |
| 18 | This explanation is far less obvious than in the case of do auxiliary however , since in sentences such as ( 3 ) , the infinitive seems to evoke an action which is future with respect to the existence of the obligation which must evokes in the present . |
| 19 | Not only are there few people in the Highlands and Islands , but they are much fewer than in the past ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 20 | Even excluding bonuses , British top managers beat their French , German and Dutch counterparts with a 12.1 per cent hike in basic pay ( although their real increases — 5.1 per cent — were not much larger than on the continent ) . |
| 21 | — in a child , the heart is proportionately much larger than in an adult : th ; of total body weight , as opposed to th ; ; |
| 22 | However it was reported that member countries considered oil and energy problems less urgent than in the past . |
| 23 | Turnover fell by over 60 per cent in the body plant in the same period , though it should be noted that unemployment was rising in Sweden and therefore turnover rates in SAAB as a whole were falling , though less fast than in the body shop . |
| 24 | The maple veneer ceilings were divided into four panels with designs in the corners ( less elaborate than on the Brush cars ) . |
| 25 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |
| 26 | In the spring the flowers are at their most glorious , and the weather is much better than in the UK . |
| 27 | Er Nottingham had about three attempts to pinch , and er the last one they were told to put their own house in order , first , because conditions were so much better than in the city . |
| 28 | The restrictions on that country 's course of action are therefore less powerful than in the case of the Japanese example above , and its future behaviour is less suited to accurate prediction . |
| 29 | The roofs of the cars are ellipses , the curves somewhat shallower than in the days of Charles Tyson Yerkes or , come to that , Sherlock Holmes . |
| 30 | You can talk personally better than on the phone . |