Example sentences of "far [det] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mr Major is expected to announce that the Trident submarines will carry far fewer than the expected 512 warheads . |
| 2 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 3 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 4 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 5 | The idea needs a lot of working up , of course , but far less than an SEC , and I really believe that it would be worth doing . |
| 6 | But the yields on their bonds varied by far less than the ratings would suggest . |
| 7 | When the motives are wrong the venue is nearly always far less than the best . |
| 8 | The Japanese , champions of new product development , spend far less than the British on hiring market researchers , relying instead on information obtained by their own managers who get out and talk to dealers and customers . |
| 9 | This is half the typical findings for France , and far less than the third or more often reported from eastern Europe or from Japan in the same centuries . |
| 10 | This argument is meaningful only for lines longer than , say , 40 km as the inherent discrepancy is so slight on shorter distances that the error on the ground is far less than the sizes of marker sites involved . |
| 11 | In practice materials generally only reach a small fraction of their theoretical strength before they break and so the release of strain energy is usually far less than the energy which would be provided by an equivalent weight of explosive . |
| 12 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 13 | In fact , the ‘ discrimination ’ or even ‘ oppression ’ , against which champions of various Soviet nationalities abroad protest , is far less than the expected consequences of the withdrawal of Soviet power . |
| 14 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 15 | This is somewhat less than France ( 19 per cent ) , Japan ( 21 per cent ) or the Netherlands ( 22 per cent ) and far less than the U.S.A. ( 44 per cent ) , ( DES , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore , positioning of this fragment upstream of the HSV-tk gene promoter stimulates transcription 2–3 times over control values , far less than the activity observed for this fragment in the homologous promoter , indicating that full activity of this fragment requires sequences located in the proximal part of the promoter . |
| 17 | What I knew of him corrupted me far less than the false ideas I conceived . |
| 18 | By the end of the fifties , Washington had agree to help improve the Iranian armed forces more rapidly , but American military aid was still far less than the Shah wanted . |
| 19 | In April the World Bank-sponsored Aid to Bangladesh Consortium promised US$1,800 million in soft loans and grants — far less than the US$2,500 million requested by the government — reportedly because of continuing concern over the government 's economic policies . |
| 20 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 21 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 22 | A diving whale may store more than 40 per cent of its oxygen intake in its muscles , far more than a human is capable of . |
| 23 | Prayer is far more than a shopping list , or an incidental five minutes at the end of a busy day . |
| 24 | The great difference between the events of the 1540s and earlier periods of hostility between England and Scotland was that this episode was far more than a particularly dramatic example of the eternal political and military triangle of England , Scotland and France , or even just the revival by Henry VIII and Somerset of that old English dream , the unification of England and Scotland . |
| 25 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 26 | Your determination to ‘ get it right ’ will impress far more than a false sense of confidence or a reluctance to admit you could do with assistance . |
| 27 | In simple terms , skin is far more than a superficial covering for the body ; it is a living , breathing organism . |
| 28 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 29 | Individual letters mean far more than a signature on a petition . |
| 30 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |