Example sentences of "better than [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Secular university choirs are said to be much better than church groups .
2 However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years .
3 They 're better than lamp posts and that , cos trees grow out of the ground , so they 're extra special like .
4 I should have remembered : our new management likes nothing better than doing things on the cheap .
5 It is notable that students with no qualifications or who enter only on the basis of O-levels have relatively high non-completion rates , while students entering on the basis of one A-level or Access courses have completion rates which are marginally better than A-level entrants .
6 BBC Radio news scored 5.0 and Commercial Radio news 4.4. party leaflets came bottom with 4.0 while conversations with family , friends , and acquaintances scored 4.8 , which was better than party leaflets or Commercial Radio but worse than the press or television .
7 Fortunately he is now fully recovered and will take all the beating as he is better than form figures indicate .
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