Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of household waste , the price rarely covers more than a fraction of the cost of collection and sorting . |
| 2 | And does it not have the ludicrous implication that a two-month-old only knows more than the two-week-old because he is more active ? |
| 3 | As was said in the introductory section , it is not feasible for the government to direct the firm to produce specific quantities at specific prices because the government necessarily knows less than the firm about underlying demand and cost conditions . |
| 4 | It is the prestige of winning this historic race that is important rather than the prize money , as the winner usually receives less than the runner-up . |
| 5 | In the past , the guards have smacked of overkill , since it rarely takes more than a baton charge with their lathi sticks to quell the traditional rotten orange barrage that welcomes most touring teams . |
| 6 | He now has less than a month to ‘ re-engage ’ the negotiations before the United States imposes a savage and crippling 200pc trade tariff on £200m of imported European goods . |
| 7 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 8 | Their inherent vulnerability in many societies — a condom often costs more than a prostitute — is often encouraged in political manipulations of religious precepts . |
| 9 | They point out that the acquisition , which now comprises more than a quarter of the MAC 's permanent collection , is of extremely uneven quality , but the MAC policy practically forbids deaccessioning . |
| 10 | The exterior of the rock consequently expands more than the interior and stresses are set up . |
| 11 | If the textual sprawl of today 's average ‘ quality ’ newspaper ultimately represents less than the sum of its sections , then it also represents in a more immediate sense the collapse of what Neville Wakefield has recently described as ‘ a world in which information can still be organised and evaluated and hierarchised according to rigid structures of meaning ’ The new generation of ‘ top people 's papers wear their manifold contradictions firmly on their sleeves . |
| 12 | It certainly means more than the absence of negligence . |
| 13 | But it never lasts more than an hour whatever he does . |
| 14 | Mystery Miguel , they call him , and he never does more than a couple of songs . |