Example sentences of "than [art] rest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students of communications , instrumentation , special applications and ( marginally ) computing were more likely than the rest to be seeking work . |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 3 | His romantic idea that gangsters closer to reality than the rest of us . |
| 4 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 5 | The study concluded that Los Angeles had the slowest pace of all , and the West was generally slower-paced than the rest of the country . |
| 6 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 7 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 8 | At this point they would go to bed slightly earlier than the rest of us ( because they were tired ) , and start the delaying process all over again . |
| 9 | Also it might be that those who suffer from SAD differ from most people only because they are more susceptible than the rest of the population to feeling ‘ under the weather ’ when they do not see daylight , particularly in the morning . |
| 10 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 11 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 12 | Britain 's tax burden could be 15% lower as a share of GDP than the rest of the EC 's . |
| 13 | Soldered joints are often difficult to spot visually , but radiography is helpful for detecting them if the solder is denser than the rest of the object or if there is a cavity at the joint . |
| 14 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 15 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 16 | Here they yield 20 p.c. more than the rest of the market , on forecasts to March 1993 . |
| 17 | What is the point of all that careful breeding with suitable people , all that specialised education and upbringing , if not to produce people who are somehow nobler and more self-sacrificing than the rest of us ? |
| 18 | Rather unexpectedly , the Western Isles are somewhat less sparsely populated than the rest of the Highlands and Islands , having almost 10% of their population as against about 8% of the area . |
| 19 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 20 | Britain has proportionately the largest prison population of any Community country — and we also have more prisoners serving life sentences than the rest of the EC combined . |
| 21 | A ‘ short circuit ’ route for the water developed which cooled more rapidly than the rest of the reservoir , reducing its effectiveness . |
| 22 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 23 | The United States found the implications of these new political realities harder to accept than the rest of the international community , which had almost unanimously welcomed the PLO 's clarified accommodationism . |
| 24 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 25 | Ann , made of sterner stuff than the rest of her tribe , leapt from the car , determined to fish . |
| 26 | I just thought you had a bit more guts than the rest of them . |
| 27 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 28 | But eventually they come to accept the situation and seem able to live each day more perfectly and more beautifully than the rest of us are able to do . |
| 29 | It was on a lower level than the rest of the works and was lit by windows which ran the length of the wall facing the doorway . |
| 30 | One possibility is that only those who fail to fulfil their biological drives need mysticism as an escape , but the rich and famous seem no more immune to the lure of the Maharishi than the rest of us . |