Example sentences of "[num] [noun] more [adj] [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( The Profitboss is ten times more effective than a union ) |
| 2 | The version with which I was introduced to my housemaster role in the prison service by an experienced principal officer was ‘ One thing more difficult than a busy Borstal boy is an idle Borstal boy . ’ |
| 3 | It was ten to twenty times more powerful than a candle , and thus encouraged the furniture into the room away from the fire , which had often served as supplementary lighting . |
| 4 | A thirty-second verbal report is thirty times more valuable than a thirty-page written report |
| 5 | That is , they would each have to be about 450 times more accurate than a typical real-life secretary . |
| 6 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 7 | ( At the extremes , a child of professional parents was about 20 times more likely than a child of semi-skilled and unskilled workers to enter full-time higher education . ) |