Example sentences of "than [art] current [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add up the value of your home , car , shares and belongings and you may well find you are worth more than the current threshold . |
| 2 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 3 | They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 4 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that from April 1992 , 60% rather than the current 50% of Government housing finance will be allocated on a discretionary basis following civil servants ' assessment of councils ' performance . |
| 5 | But to clean exhaust gases further requires fuel with a much lower sulphur content than the current brew , plus some form of exhaust-mounted particulate trap or catalyst . |
| 6 | higher than the current year , and spending in Scotland will be 22 per cent . |
| 7 | Changing the law to place NationalPower and Power-Gen under a legal obligation to agree fixed contracts for specified tonnages over a longer period than the current year was hinted at by Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , in evidence to the energy select committee last year . |
| 8 | But in its way it is more exciting and more of a challenge than the current enthusiasm for plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading . |
| 9 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 10 | Audi 's new 100 makes its showroom debut in May at prices no more than four to five per cent higher than the current range . |
| 11 | For example , if other short-term interest rates are higher than the current yield , the bond is said to involve a running cost . |
| 12 | Investment expenditure I is also assumed to be exogenous in our model , with factors such as business confidence and the expectations of entrepreneurs being considered more important determinants of the level of investment than the current level of income . |
| 13 | Although this figure was less than the current level of HK$91,000 million , it was almost three times the amount promised to China by the UK in the 1991 memorandum of understanding , which was the condition for Chinese approval for Hong Kong 's new airport |
| 14 | Taken over 10 years , it was equivalent to an annual rise of 7.5 per cent — nearly four per cent higher than the current inflation rate . |
| 15 | Although this will not provide sentential context it will be less localised than the current system . |
| 16 | Daily newspaper Le Monde said the accord would cover co-operation in developing 16M-bit Flash memories rather than the current generation 4Ms . |
| 17 | Auspex recently struck up an OEM deal with IBM , which involves development of a new version of the machine using a Rios chip rather than the current Sparc . |
| 18 | At this stage , if an invalid date or a date later than the current date is entered , an error is reported and the date is requested again . |
| 19 | The date and time specified for the next scheduled shut down must be later than the current date and time . |
| 20 | The date and time specified is later than the current date and time . |
| 21 | The future date specified is earlier than the current date . |
| 22 | You should specify a date which is later than the current date , in the format dd-MMM-yyyy . |
| 23 | The past date specified is not earlier than the current date . |
| 24 | You should specify a date which is earlier than the current date in the format dd-MMM-yyyy . |
| 25 | They 're not as big and not as yellow but likely to be more expensive than the current price of around 49p a pound . |
| 26 | If there were not an expectation that the spot price at delivery will be higher than the current price of the futures contract , it is argued that the number of those who wish to hold a short position ( for instance , producers of the underlying physical asset hedging their risks ) would exceed the number who wish to hold a long position in the futures contract ( for instance , speculators ) . |
| 27 | But at the output Q , person 2 's marginal private benefit is only P 2 , which is less than the current price P 1 . |
| 28 | No more than the current proof-print will be lost in the event of failure occurring during the proof-printing of single entries . |
| 29 | Moreover , Soviet oil deliveries would be charged at world prices rather than the current pricing system based on a five-year rolling average . |
| 30 | Italy required more than the current quota of 18,500 passes per month , but Austria sought the transfer of more Italian freight to the railways and other concessions . |