Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gap junctions in the patients with gastric ulcer were significantly fewer than in the healthy volunteers . |
| 2 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 3 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 4 | ‘ This year there are a lot of students who have not yet got training places — significantly more than at a similar time in previous years , ’ Mr Pritchard said , adding that the Law Society was considering various ways of helping those unable to find a training places with a law firm . |
| 5 | The London futures market had its busiest day with 650,000 contracts changing hands — 60 per cent more than on the previous record day . |
| 6 | If you withdraw it before then , you may still get more than with an ordinary bank or building society . |
| 7 | To the extent that freedom of expression figured at all , it was no more than as an implicit principle sitting silently in the gaps between the words . |
| 8 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
| 9 | If , as I suspect , many employees turn more than in the past decade to trade unionism , to improve the condition of their working lives , the public image of the unions , whether positive or negative , will be important to Labour . |
| 10 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 11 | This is noticeably more than in the previous European series from Nottingham ( 14/100000/year ) , Bristol ( 7/ 100000/year ) , Göttingen ( 21/100000/year ) , Glasgow ( 15/100000/year ) , Copenhagen ( 28/ 100000/year ) , and even more than in the previous survey from Western Australia ( 60/ 100000/year ) . |
| 12 | Last year Britons swigged water worth about £150m ( $243m ) , 60% more than in the previous year . |
| 13 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 14 | Nowhere does this apply more than in the sexual field . |
| 15 | There 's nothing to be scared of , any more than in an old church . |
| 16 | It may also express other varieties of emphasis — for instance , contrast — but this is in no way required of it any more nor less than of a prenominal adjective . |
| 17 | The skills required were no less than for the intricate metalworking and jewelling skills of the Kentish craftsmen , but the effort and raw materials required were on an altogether different scale . |
| 18 | The first full dress rehearsal occurred on July 10 and 637 aircraft took part , a few less than on the actual event . |
| 19 | Locals on LIFFE may account for 20 to 25 per cent of turnover , considerably less than on the main US exchanges which tend to have more individual members than LIFFE . |
| 20 | Point counting can be done by preparing transparent overlay coordinate grids at various sizes ; eye strain is found to be less than with a petrographic microscope . |
| 21 | They are clearly attracted by the knowledge that they are able to buy a public house for at least 50 per cent to 60 per cent less than in the hectic days of 1989/90 . |
| 22 | In many insects the number of veins is less than in the hypothetical type , and the reduction has been brought about by the degeneration or complete atrophy of a vein , or of one or more of its branches , or by the coalescence of adjacent veins . |
| 23 | Because of rotation and the fact that promotion of a subordinate is not threatening to the status of a superordinate , internal managerial competition is far less than in the Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 24 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 25 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 26 | The 1991 budget , adopted in January 1991 , provided for expenditure of Z2,167,000 million , 100,000 million less than in the previous year . |
| 27 | In the normal intestine , water absorption was similar from WHO-ORS ( 87.4 ( 45.1–124.6 ) µl/min/g ; median and interquartile range ) and UK-ORS ( 57.6 ( 41.5–87 ) ) but less than from the hypotonic solutions ( p<0.02 ) ; water absorption from RS-ORS ( 181.8 ( 168.5–193.8 ) ) and RP-ORS ( 195.7 ( 179.3–207.9 ) ) was similar but less than from HYPO-ORS ( 241.3 ( 230.6–279.7 ) ; p<0.005 ) . |