Example sentences of "than [noun] [conj] they [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 For the walk-in horses are better pack animals than llamas as they carry much more and cost about the same , but horses can not reach all the base camps .
2 In general , long shots run for longer than close-ups because they contain more information for the eye to take in , and an average length might be ten to fifteen seconds .
3 Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse .
4 Women get drunk more easily than men because they have less water per body weight .
5 The media also perceive some institutions as more ‘ important ’ and hence more ‘ newsworthy ’ than others and they perpetuate that perception by locating themselves within or near those institutions .
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