Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] than [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To try and explain this one is almost as bad as to try and explain Hegel erm my ignorance is even more crying in this case than in the other . |
| 2 | Trade , technical and professional magazines ; There are more magazines in this group than in the consumer group and it is safe to say that whatever the trade , profession or industry there will be a publication to deal with it . |
| 3 | In the closing stages of the tournament I felt that the message had got through to the players about staying on their feet , and there were less penalties given for this offence than in the pool games . |
| 4 | Nearly all lawyers in local government are solicitors , and it is better to qualify this way than at the Bar . |
| 5 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
| 6 | The other factor is that the margin between lending and borrowing rates is narrower on this market than on the home market , primarily because banks can operate at lower cost when all business is wholesale and when they are not subject to reserve requirements . |
| 7 | The -ing form would have referred more to the mere experience of being alone at that moment than to the unexpectedness of finding himself alone . |
| 8 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 9 | And where better to remember that individuality than in the town of Bazar . |
| 10 | Assemblies of protest , it was said in the House of Lords debate ( Lord Beloff ) , should receive less support than in the past . |
| 11 | Publishers were looked to for far more support than in the past , as the following interview comments show : ‘ There 's a change from the past , when we used worksheets predominantly , with textbooks just for backup . |
| 12 | With no less force than on the dog 's behalf might the third-party claim that the law should intervene to see the job is done , but there would be no inclination to talk of the right of the grave to be maintained . |
| 13 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 14 | There was more imitation ice than in The Ancient Mariner , more gilt than in a psychiatrist 's office , more rolled gold than in Acapulco . |
| 15 | Suppliers admit they get more stability than in the past , but some complain of ruthless use of retail muscle . |
| 16 | In such cases the issue of representativeness is of less concern than in the sample survey . |
| 17 | It is desirable that the committal order be served as a matter of urgency although in a case which merited a sentence of six months ' imprisonment — and the contrary was not argued on M. 's behalf — there is much less urgency than in the case of a short sentence of imprisonment . |
| 18 | The user must become familiar with the facilities of this search software and therefore may need more training than for the retrieval of information from a database which has been indexed with a controlled indexing language . |
| 19 | The area in which they lived was overcrowded and unsalubrious and if there was rather less unemployment than in the north of England , that was about all that could be said for it . |
| 20 | Thus , share prices reflect less information than before the introduction of index futures . |
| 21 | In the west there is more rain ( about 800 mm per year ) , more cloud and therefore less sunshine than in the east ( 600 mm rain per year ) . |
| 22 | The main psychological effect is improved well-being with a reduced anxiety level and less depression than in the patient who has not undergone exercise training . |
| 23 | ‘ You have far less time than in the middle to adjust your leap . |
| 24 | Labour in Japan does tend to work for fewer employers over a typical career and does therefore tend to stay longer in each firm than in the West , but there are very significant variations depending on age , firm size and gender . |
| 25 | Once the light had been turned out again , slowly , inch by inch , Charlie continued his crab-like advance , now more fearful of a stray bullet from his own side than from the enemy 's . |
| 26 | You would rather stand in the rain any day than in a bus shelter . ’ |
| 27 | A Japanese worker at Mitsubishi feels closer to his own manager than to a co-worker at Hitachi . |
| 28 | On the contrary , he had spent the hours of peril trying to establish in his mind his superiority to the abject cowardice of his companions , seeming more concerned with his own soul than with the fate of the helpless pilgrims on the Patna . |
| 29 | Some say that more people died that year than during the rebellion 10 years before . |