Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 2 | War may not be an overall preference ( Lenin was particularly fond of Clausewitz 's remark that the aggressor would prefer to walk in and occupy a foreign territory peacefully rather than fight for it ) ; but if it is the most effective way of achieving an aim , it is necessary to pursue it . |
| 3 | Now coming back to the objective I say it leaves you on a high note then rather than the and that 's all I 'm gon na say tell them what you 're gon na tell them then tell them then tell them what you 've told them . |
| 4 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
| 5 | Most children do grow out of their sensitivities gradually , and it is important not to keep them on a restricted diet any longer than necessary . |
| 6 | Trusts within this locality , er are , a little bit further afield than , than , are actually looking a towards Patient Focused Hospitals , where in actual fact everything , every , every treatment a patient is dealt with on the ward , rather than have a skilled nurse undertaking part of the treatment , there will be multi-skilling so er the member of staff will be multi-skilled to perform almost every single aspect of erm care directly on a ward . |
| 7 | Also higher property transfer taxes and commision rates make selling a house a much less attractive option in Europe so people tend to treat a house as a long term home rather than as an investment . |
| 8 | Thicker yarns are more effective for large designs and lighter colours will usually show up a complex design more clearly than small designs , |
| 9 | Yet , my feeling is that the spirits could bear my reproaches for bad advice a good deal more easily than men of flesh and blood to whom contusions and abrasions , the common result of argument , are very real sources of anguish . |
| 10 | I said , a good deal more calmly than I felt . |
| 11 | I found parental " insignificance " a family situation which figured a good deal more often than might be expected from mere chance in the history of dependent individuals . |
| 12 | For this reason , I think that such difficulties arise a good deal more often than is generally appreciated . |
| 13 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 14 | If there has been little theoretical change , or if they are works of art in their own right — and especially if they are decorative — then illustrations can have a useful life much longer than the text which accompanied them . |
| 15 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 16 | In our experience dogs manage the loss of a front leg slightly better than that of a back leg . |
| 17 | On Pebble Island , a great bay called Elephant Bay has as its border a sandy beach no less than seven kilometres in length . |
| 18 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |