Example sentences of "[adv] than [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 2 | The GOTO statement makes BBCBASIC(Z80) jump to a specified line number rather than continuing with the next statement in the program . |
| 3 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 4 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 5 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 6 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 7 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 8 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 9 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 10 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 11 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
| 12 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 13 | Shares in News Corp and its UK arm News International have enjoyed a dramatic recovery and more than doubled in the last year . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months . |
| 15 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
| 16 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 17 | Despite the extensive decline , it is possible that more Redshanks still nest in Sussex today than did in the 19th century . |