Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [prep] a [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Species and genetic change , fixation of atmospheric N 2 , and nitrogen deposition may have facilitated plant response to CO 2 in the past when concentrations rose more slowly or with a greater relaxation time between change than today , but data are lacking . |
| 2 | Other authorities followed slowly and on a smaller scale . |
| 3 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |
| 4 | Produce could be moved more rapidly and in a fresher state by truck . |
| 5 | They are , temporarily and on a smaller scale , in the same position as banks or building societies or insurance companies , all of which are subject to special regulatory regimes to ensure that depositors and policyholders are adequately protected . |
| 6 | What had happened was that the wall had been built much later and from a higher ground level . |
| 7 | Chimpanzees use tools more often and in a greater variety of ways than any other animal , except man . |
| 8 | The specific volume changes linearly with temperature up to a transition region where a change of slope occurs , after which the curve continues linearly but at a steeper gradient ; Tg is usually defined s the point at which the tangents to the two curves intersect . |
| 9 | If it is of exceptional quality , there is a chance that it may be vested — either immediately or at a later date — in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 10 | We shall be able to undertake that task more fully and in a better manner in future . |
| 11 | The models were also approached more closely and for a longer duration when presented with large crests ( female responses : for closest approach , log-likelihood ratio G =63.8 , d.f . |
| 12 | The latter study , which was conducted in Macomb , Illinois , discovered that during the period 1972 ( when Rossi carried out his research in Baltimore ) to 1979 , ‘ the seriousness rating of white-collar crime … increased both absolutely and to a greater extent than any other category ’ , and more important , increases in seriousness ratings were pronounced in two categories of corporate crime , particularly ‘ violence ’ ( resulting in death or injury ) and ‘ price-fixing ’ . |