Example sentences of "than the standard [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are still a few in New Zealand but numbers there are now very low , and the Belted variety is more popular than the standard black . |
| 2 | The horizontal axis is now calibrated in units of beta rather than the standard deviation of expected returns . |
| 3 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 4 | The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage . |
| 5 | This machine has long Wipline 6000 floats with integral lockers rather than the standard Edo 4930 units . |
| 6 | For hand-prepared specimens , spring-loaded clothes pegs can be used to provide even pressure , and these are also very useful for large sections , where four or more pegs can produce a more even bond than the standard jig . |
| 7 | That is longer than the standard truncheon and would be useful to police officers who patrol alone at night because it affords additional protection against all kinds of assaults , excluding of course , assaults using firearms . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Where the court makes an order for costs without indicating the basis of taxation or an order that costs be taxed on a basis other than the standard basis or the indemnity basis , the costs shall be taxed on the standard basis . |
| 9 | ‘ Where the court makes an order for costs without indicating the basis of taxation or an order that costs be taxed on a basis other than the standard basis or the indemnity basis , the costs shall be taxed on the standard basis . |
| 10 | This is the electro-acoustic version of the SW213 and retails for £20 more than the standard model . |
| 11 | This is much less well known than the standard image of Poland as a nation constantly overrun by hostile forces . |
| 12 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 13 | Much less unacceptable would be a shorter warrant period , which should be the maximum duration possible , rather than the standard period in every case . |
| 14 | Cereal based oral rehydration solutions are significantly better than the standard glucose oral rehydration solutions in the treatment of diarrhoea . |
| 15 | It has been found in concentrations over 40 times greater than the standard set by the European Community . |
| 16 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 17 | Thus after year six , your monthly payments are higher than the standard rate demands . |
| 18 | Since some proportion of interest recipients would not be liable for tax , the composite rate is always less than the standard rate . |
| 19 | It was eighty pages longer than the standard biography of Antonin Dvořák , the composer , and only seventy pages shorter than the definitive historical account of Rommel 's North African campaign . |
| 20 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 21 | Thus a stream of pulses lasting 1 second each and given at 10 second intervals could be the ‘ background ’ ( they could be sound pulses or pulses on a screen , for example ) ; the ‘ signal ’ being sought could be the absence of a pulse , one that was shorter or longer than the standard value or one that appeared too soon or too late . |
| 22 | The landlord should beware should interest rates fall dramatically leaving the minimum rate at a level substantially higher than the standard borrowing rate , in which case the interest may be void as amounting to a penalty ; and the tenant would be advised not to run the risk of having to pay interest at a substantially higher rate than the basic lending rate . |
| 23 | And , as I have said before , the further away we get from the original blueprint formula , the more scope there is for books that do less in some directions and perhaps more in others than the standard design would seem to indicate as being possible . |
| 24 | Any method other than the standard method requires Customs ' advance written approval . |