Example sentences of "than a human [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cottage was so small it looked more like a doll 's house than a human dwelling . |
| 2 | Retrieve and change data far faster than a human can . |
| 3 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 4 | It was a very old sound , more like a tired gate creaking on its hinges than a human voice . |
| 5 | Instead of one strand as thick as string , there were dozens of fibres three times thinner than a human hair . |
| 6 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 7 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 8 | Some are so high that they enable their makers to detect the presence of a wire no thicker than a human hair stretched across their flyway . |
| 9 | A bacterium has a smaller information capacity than a human cell , by a factor of about 1,000 , and it probably uses nearly all of it : there is little room for parasites . |
| 10 | The sentence ‘ Early maturity led to her killing herself ’ suggests an organic disorder , rather than a human tragedy . |
| 11 | If this looks likely , you have to be absolutely certain they 're going to achieve your objectives better than a human being ! |
| 12 | It is stronger , more efficient — and sometimes more human than a human being . |
| 13 | If a comprehensive task description can be completed then it is legitimate to enquire why the task can not be allocated to a technical device rather than a human being . |
| 14 | He had n't had to suffer as much as her — I do n't so much mean that , like fishes , his pain threshold was higher than a human being 's ( although I do n't doubt that was the case ) as that he 'd been aware that his son was missing for a shorter period than his wife . |
| 15 | All too often , the antecedents of revolution are separated by more than a human lifespan from their fruition . |
| 16 | He glimpsed the twisted , molten remains of the metal water bucket : one of the sisters , hearing Dame Frances ' screams , had hurried down , opened the scullery door , and had seen her companion , nothing more than a human torch , the iron water bucket lying at her feet . |
| 17 | Porno Dreams were of a notoriously low standard , blurry beyond the bedroom , giving the dreamer the feeling he was dybbukking a deep-sea diving suit rather than a human body . |