Example sentences of "a [adj] than [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , ‘ Portrait ’ AE sets a larger than normal lens aperture . |
| 2 | It does appear that , in general , British new towns have a better than average safety record : a 1975 TRRL report suggests that the frequency of injury accidents in seven ‘ Mark One ’ new towns was about 20 per cent less than in other towns . |
| 3 | The three points on this line lie within of a degree and the line extends to the church at Bishops Cannings with a better than ⅛ degree accuracy . |
| 4 | She was a more than competent shorthand typist and an efficient secretary . |
| 5 | I also like it because it does n't offer any false promises of amazing results ; instead , what it has to offer is a reasonably priced , workable upgrade from four tracks to eight with a more than creditable end result ( as long as the guidelines in the manual and certain obvious rules are observed ) . |
| 6 | Such von Neumann probes , as they have been dubbed — after the US mathematician John von Neumann ( 1903–57 ) — would obviously have to possess a more than rudimentary machine intelligence . |
| 7 | Hailing from the tourist hotspot of Sunderland , Leatherface take their bearings from one of the most influential albums of the Eighties — Husker Du 's ‘ New Day Rising ’ — and add a more than adequate Pop sensibility to convey mainman Frankie Stubbs ' outbursts on the state of the world within and around him . |
| 8 | Even charges by experts in the same field can differ widely ; it is possible to obtain a more than adequate employment report for under £500 , whereas some agencies in the area will quote £1,500 . |
| 9 | MBO and venture capital fund investors are only slowly appreciating that the trade-off for the lower risk inherent in transactions that are more carefully selected and more conservatively structured than those typical in the mid-eighties has to be lower anticipated rates of return , whether the exit is via a trade sale or a flotation on to a less than receptive equity market . |
| 10 | Having dealt with a less than happy situation Mr Vernon moved on to more pleasant matters , reminding the meeting of the Headquarters and Depot Open Days in August and of the warm reception shown to the public by those who man the lifeboat stations . |
| 11 | It is famous for its tremendous resources and ability to get the job done , but other firms suggest that it has a less than enviable success rate . |
| 12 | Editor , — The BMJ is to be congratulated on highlighting the difficulty doctors have when they seek to train and work in the hospital service on a less than full time basis — a reasonable aspiration when you realise that the average working week for people other than doctors is 37.5 hours yet for doctors half time can be in excess of 40 hours . |
| 13 | For the first time population could increase with a declining grain price and a less than commensurate food output , subsisting on grain imports paid for by manufactures ; ‘ It is one of the most striking ironies of intellectual history that Malthus should have fashioned his analysis just at the time when it was about to cease to be applicable to the country in which he lived ’ ( Wrigley 1986 ) . |
| 14 | Associated with this is a higher than average birth rate , a comparatively high level of natural increase , relatively heavy out-migration and a young population age structure . |
| 15 | All this points to a higher than usual intelligence quotient . ’ |
| 16 | So , a person with a higher than normal cholesterol concentration carries a relatively low risk if he/she does not smoke , has low blood pressure , is not overweight , exercises regularly and has no history of heart disease in the family . |
| 17 | This also applies to the Cheesewring Quarry , which seems to have had a higher than normal accident rate in the past few years . |
| 18 | Plans to cut public spending by 14.5 per cent to combat a higher than expected budget deficit were criticized by former communist deputies , who demanded the government 's dismissal , calling on Bielecki to act merely as caretaker Prime Minister until the elections . |
| 19 | The property benefits from its own drive and a wider than average side access . |
| 20 | THE Coca-Cola Cup finals next Saturday will be the penultimate schools competition in a busier than usual netball season . |
| 21 | The withdrawal of Raymond Leppard meant an earlier than anticipated RSNO debut for Yuasa , and he seized the opportunity with some distinction . |
| 22 | The race has an earlier than normal start time with the Wirral Mayor due to fire the cannon to set the fleet on its way at 5p.m . |