Example sentences of "than [art] usual [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unisys basically feels however that with its price-performance and coming enhancements there is a lot of life left in the 80486 and that it will not be replaced immediately by Pentium , more the meat of early adopters , than the usual customer . |
| 2 | Unisys basically feels however that with its price/performance and coming enhancements there is a lot of life left in the 80486 and that it will not be replaced immediately by Pentium , more the meat of early adopters , than the usual customer . |
| 3 | The curved tooth cuts faster and smoother than the usual block-shaped TCT tooth . |
| 4 | The Bizet is given a sparkling performance too , while generously the Ravel comes in the complete ballet version , even more hauntingly atmopheric than the usual suite . |
| 5 | And thus the reader has to go more than the usual way he goes to understand what he 's looking at . |
| 6 | Chancellor faces Budget decisions of more than the usual complexity |
| 7 | Owen Teale 's comic and original Hotspur brings much more to the part than the usual hellcat warrior . |
| 8 | Every disease presents its own peculiar problems which fascinate and challenge investigators , but tuberculosis has more than the usual range of difficulties . |
| 9 | It easily unlocked his heart , one that bore more than the usual share of tragedy . |
| 10 | * Those stronger than the usual echoes produced by fish . |
| 11 | There was no initial reason to suspect Daine 's Dream was anything more than the usual hacker incursion , too tiny to bother about . |
| 12 | Many textbooks now do this with more than the usual letters , menus , maps , and newspaper cuttings ( old favourites chosen as much for ease of reproduction as for their usefulness ) and include pictures of cans and bottles and packets with legible labels , video covers , road signs , brochures , telex print-outs , and so on ( as in Task 54 ) . |
| 13 | The one time disabled people were really encouraged to set their sights higher than the usual occupations reserved for them , such as basketwork , needlework , shoe or watch repairing , was during the second world war . |
| 14 | The thousand pound machine he 's riding is called a recumbant , it 's faster than the usual type of racing bike and has the added advantage of giving it 's rider , as the name suggests , a more leisurely riding position . |
| 15 | We then set out to look for contacts that come from sources other than the usual lake fish . |
| 16 | Normally , a flock of almost 3000 sheep was kept , producing a better grade of wool than the usual run of scraggy downland animals . |
| 17 | The greater authority of the aggressor male perpetrator is further emphasised by the fact that , of the assaults against males , those coming to the notice of the newspapers largely concerned a much older set of defendants than the usual run of offenders coming before the courts . |
| 18 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 19 | When he sold his stations in 1985 , he got $2bn — 15 times the cash flow of the stations , rather than the usual multiple of nine to 11 . |
| 20 | Analysis can only reveal the presence of a pollutant for which tests are actually carried out and it adds to the costs and time required ( another constraint , of which field staff are well aware , against sampling too freely ) to analyse routinely for pollutants on more than the usual parameters — BOD , suspended solids , ammonia . |
| 21 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 22 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 23 | Five cases of the rare tumour retinoblastoma had been found in these children , 20 times more than the usual number . |
| 24 | Henry Ratter set up a moodified Quality in Action workshop for a group of 25 heads and LEA officers , many more than the usual number . |
| 25 | This in turn causes far more crack-ups than the usual pressures of being constantly in the public eye , a symptom that has now been identified as charity-fatigue . |
| 26 | Once again , no stops were required ( other than the usual safety stop at three metres ) and there was a feeling that this computer would have coped with far more strenuous dives with ease . |
| 27 | The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows . |
| 28 | We selected contacts with the following characteristics : * Those deeper than the usual limit of the fish echoes ( 30 m ) . |
| 29 | In cases where we can identify people who would be penalized more than the usual sort of fifty pence charge . |
| 30 | Special mention has to be made of staff serving the Regional Chambers and headquarters who had to cope with more than the usual pressure ! ’ |