Example sentences of "be [adv] [det] than [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the famous " Bohemian " ( or " Hercynian " ) and " Rhenish " provinces of Devonian times are little more than the differences between a lime-mud and a sandy sea-floor . |
| 2 | Lewis 's eldils , for instance , are little more than the angels of Judaeo-Christian tradition ; but by confusing them linguistically with Tolkien 's eldalie ( in The Silmarillion ) , he implies that the elves of mat mythology are angelic , which they are not — they are simply elves . |
| 3 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 4 | Dowty 's profits proved to be considerably less than the figures mentioned during the takeover , leading to suggestions that TI had been ‘ lumbered ’ with Dowty something TI furiously denies . |
| 5 | Moreover , the research team observed that the skills required for these jobs were much less than the skills needed to contend with interferences emanating from the underground situation . |
| 6 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is considerably less than the numbers found in the animal equivalent , sarcoptic mange , where literally thousands of mites are to be found . |
| 9 | A cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor , indomethacin , also significantly decreased the chemiluminescence signal but the magnitude ( -34% ) was substantially less than the effects of either azide or catalase ( Fig 6 ) . |