Example sentences of "[det] [det] than [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA .
2 Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " .
3 He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week .
4 Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful .
5 The advantage of buying in a local store in Europe is that although you have to pay local duty , it is likely to be much less than in the UK .
6 But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past .
7 There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined .
8 If they are rich , they can spend more on it , and will ; but there is no calculus which can tell us the optimum amount that we ought to spend on education , any more than on the relief of suffering and the cure of the sick , or on the arts .
9 They were not swayed by the Coal Board 's insistence that they could do what they wanted any more than by the unions ' claims about the threatened mines .
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