Example sentences of "[adv] than a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 2 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 3 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 4 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 5 | For , large or small , the ‘ master ’ rather than the impersonal authority of the ‘ company ’ ruled the enterprise , and even the company was identified with a man rather than a board of directors . |
| 6 | There seems no a priori reason why the intellectual collapse of the radical bourgeoisie in the early nineteenth century should necessitate a single line of avant-garde response — rather than a multiplicity of struggles , which , instead of leading irrevocably to extreme Schoenbergian individualism , might , for example , ‘ preserve ’ ( that is reuse ) older elements , to be rearticulated to the interests of new group subjects if and when they emerged . |
| 7 | Bell goes on to make explicit a relationship between monolingual stylistic variation and bilingual behaviour : having two discrete languages available rather than a continuum of styles simply throws into sharper focus the factors which operate on monolingual style shift . |
| 8 | Does it cover a change in view rather than a change in facts ? |
| 9 | He believed Dene House was among those to close because of its potential high sale value rather than a lack of residents . |
| 10 | Offers are always expressed as two or three grades rather than a total of points to retain a degree of control at the confirmation stage . |
| 11 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 12 | Nor was he planning to turn the BBC into a ‘ publisher ’ rather than a maker of programmes . |
| 13 | Asquith 's 1915 government was only halfway to coalition ; it was in fact a coalition of parties rather than a coalition of men , and it was run so as to maximize continuity . |
| 14 | ‘ Often , ’ he notes , ‘ we resembled a rather violent community welfare body rather than a group of revolutionaries . ’ |
| 15 | At present the museum 's director Alessandra Mottola Molfino envisages it as a huge visual archive rather than a collection of objects . |
| 16 | They constitute agendas for research rather than a collection of findings and substantiated theories of social life . |
| 17 | Heavy advertising has promoted cider as a yuppie drink , rather than a tipple for farmworkers and a succession of warm summers has also boosted sales . |
| 18 | Novell is handling the transaction as a purchase rather than a pooling of interests and will take a one-time write-off of up to $250m the quarter the deal closes . |
| 19 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 20 | Here was I , struggling to free a walnut from its convoluted enclosure , exalting when at last I managed to obtain a whole half rather than a handful of shards , while in the next room was a packet replete with whole halves . |
| 21 | I like them like that because what I tend to do with so I like them that big because then I can cut them up into sticks , stick them in the fridge , then if I feel like being naughty not ever so naughty because I 'm nibbling at carrots rather than a packet of crisps or something . |
| 22 | Where generalization is concerned processes common to generalizing in a variety of contexts are identified rather than a list of topics . |
| 23 | For the moment , the relevant point is that , in eukaryotes , evolution takes the form of a branching tree rather than a network of lineages that split and rejoin : once two lineages have split , they do not rejoin . |
| 24 | And DOS word processing has got it 's priorities right — you get a clean screen , devoted to your words rather than a multitude of toolbars and menus . |
| 25 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 26 | This took no longer than a couple of seconds to see and understand , a near-abstract image accompanied by a few words . |
| 27 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 28 | A bit more than a quarter on sweets and a bit less than a quarter on stationery . |
| 29 | Health statistics show , for example , that in the 5-11 age range , more than a quarter of children suffer from a cough in any one month . |
| 30 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |