Example sentences of "than [art] previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With the pitch playing slower than the previous day , forcing the ball was not easy , and only some effective slogging by Cronje ( 23 off 24 balls ) ensured respectability . |
| 32 | 1 ) Labelling the clothes will have to be much easier ! 2 ) It will be easier for the volunteers if people can bring the stuff earlier than the previous day if possible . |
| 33 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
| 34 | He gathered his cloak and entered the bailey , a calmer place than the previous day . |
| 35 | Twice daily , the tide comes in , and each day it will be approximately 50 minutes later than the previous day . |
| 36 | However , in the face of market expectations , the Bank took advantage of a money market shortage on 5 March to buy bills at a rate of discount of 11.75 per cent , 0.5 per cent higher than the previous day 's dealings and about 1 per cent above what markets were anticipating . |
| 37 | But suppose there is change of government and that the newly elected political party puts greater store by the containment of inflationary pressure , being prepared by implication to tolerate a higher unemployment rate than the previous government . |
| 38 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it more than the previous allowance . |
| 39 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it less than the previous allowance . |
| 40 | It is of no concern to a member who does sell ( at least from a financial point of view ) that the bidder , having gained control , may go on to operate the company less efficiently than the previous management or is some other way that is damaging to its business . |
| 41 | The number of businesses going to the wall was 21pc higher than the previous quarter and 20pc up on the same period a year ago , underlining the renewed strength of recession since the spring . |
| 42 | The number of businesses going to the wall was 21% higher than the previous quarter and 20% up on the same period a year ago , underlining the renewed strength of recession since the spring . |
| 43 | Through careful negotiation with the client it is important that each stage on the programme is designed to be only approximately ten units of anxiety or difficulty greater than the previous stage . |
| 44 | THE MEAN pressure at , for example , Aberdeen and Glasgow in February 1993 was some 22 millibars higher than the previous month 's values , resulting in docile weather for much of Scotland for most of the month , in stark contrast to January 's storms . |
| 45 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 46 | Now his attention was focussed on why the tower had bent and his second effort not only bent as before but was even taller than the previous tower . |
| 47 | Local education authority officers could have a central role in helping managers in schools and colleges make decisions , rather than the previous role of making decisions for them . |
| 48 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 49 | Asserting that the situation had improved since 1990 and that the Serrano government was more highly motivated than the previous administration in promoting respect for human right and bringing the perpetrators of abuses to justice , the report pointed out that the army still failed to co-operate with the police and the judiciary in prosecuting army personnel . |
| 50 | At breakfast time the general atmosphere among the residents was still subdued , but much less strained than the previous evening . |
| 51 | The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great . |
| 52 | The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great . |
| 53 | The length of the vehicle is 35ft. 8in. ( 10.870mm ) and the width produced a very much lighter coach than the previous batch of all-steel ones . |
| 54 | However , he did admit that there is a get-out clause written in to the contract involving Hapag Lloyd who share facilities at the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal which has been negotiated on cheaper terms than the previous agreement . |
| 55 | Once , he piled 66 milk crates on his head — 42 more than the previous record . |
| 56 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 57 | The final 50-mile dash around the streets of Manchester was run off at 29.9mph , bringing the race average to 26.97mph , threequarters of a mile per hour faster than the previous record , set by Joey McLoughlin in 1986 . |
| 58 | White Pudding , which also went round faster than the previous record , clocking 31.18 secs , is drawn in box four and the main danger to Kildare Slippy tomorrow could come from Run on King , which has been favourably allocated trap one . |
| 59 | This time the expedition was sea-borne , setting out from Gravesend on a paddle-steamer hired for the occasion , but the landing at Boulogne was no more successful in rousing public support than the previous attempt at Strasbourg and by the evening of 6 August Louis-Napoleon was once again under arrest . |
| 60 | ‘ I 'm not really inclined to do a post-mortem on ‘ Provision ’ , other than to say that I acknowledge that it was less successful and less fun than the previous album , ’ he says in a most matter-of-fact voice . |