Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe the young , young lady over in the other side , really told the truth , more of the truth than perhaps anyone else she said she liked it . |
| 2 | William Titford 's elder and younger brothers were each well-travelled in their own ways : Benjamin James had settled in Somerset soon after his brief spell in Cheltenham , and Charles Frederick was to see more of the world than almost any Titford before or since . |
| 3 | These are habits that must now be reworked to meet threats that are vaguer , more elusive and spread across more of the world than precisely identified units of the Soviet army . |
| 4 | ‘ I have seen him play a little bit more to the net than normally , but I would say that he has much more confidence staying back and playing long rallies . |
| 5 | And a packet of cigarettes costs £1 less on the Continent than here . |
| 6 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |