Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
| 2 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
| 3 | In the first 11 months of 1992 Brazil exported 15m bags of coffee — 14% fewer than in the same period of 1991 . |
| 4 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |
| 5 | Since the start of August the UDA/UFF has stepped up its campaign , killing four people within four short weeks and since the start of the year the UVF have killed seven — two fewer than in the same period last year . |
| 6 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
| 7 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 8 | Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday . |
| 9 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 10 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 11 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 12 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
| 13 | The brewery , which celebrated its 125th anniversary this year , notched up turnover of £25.7m in the six months to September , £3m more than in the same period last year . |
| 14 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 15 | The amount of money donated to the Village Association through the envelopes is less than at the same time last year . |
| 16 | In the British Medical Journal a Bristol hospital claimed that 24 car drivers were admitted after accidents in February , 18 less than in the same month in 1982 . |
| 17 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |