Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may reflect the fact that many people today have more leisure and money to spend on such pursuits than in the past . |
| 2 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Development training was specifically mentioned by fewer respondents than in the county libraries . |
| 5 | Thus the surgical group required a significant amount of blood transfusion as well as injection and check endoscopies , although there were fewer episodes than in the sclerotherapy group . |
| 6 | The substantially better climate and weather patterns — particularly in the southern USA — result in much higher annual utilisation and fewer cancellations than in the UK . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The Committee noted that the UKAEA has a ‘ magnificent record in scientific and technical achievements ’ but stressed that future research and development in nuclear energy will attract considerably less resources than in the past . |
| 9 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 10 | In the period 1990-92 there were more repossessions than in the whole of the 1980s . |
| 11 | more patients than in the months before they became managed . |
| 12 | Since privatisation ( and no doubt helped by the £200 million of public investment ) the firm has expanded substantially and currently has about 1,000 more employees than at the beginning of 1990 . |