Example sentences of "[det] [noun] than [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 2 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 3 | It is very difficult to give any precise figures to illustrate or establish this ; but a rough count of the twelfth-century marriages noted in three volumes of the Complete Peerage reveals that among the English upper classes of the twelfth century it was much commoner for a lady to have two or more husbands than for a man to have two or more wives ; in the cases noted , almost twice as common ( 36 to 19 ) . |
| 4 | There was more imitation ice than in The Ancient Mariner , more gilt than in a psychiatrist 's office , more rolled gold than in Acapulco . |
| 5 | You would rather stand in the rain any day than in a bus shelter . ’ |
| 6 | A Japanese worker at Mitsubishi feels closer to his own manager than to a co-worker at Hitachi . |