Example sentences of "than [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are fewer than 500 of the shy birds left in Britain ; their numbers have been hit by earlier cutting of grass and silage , which destroyed their nests and young . |
| 2 | ‘ Darling , you always were more than grateful for the smallest things that anyone did for you , but in future you 'll be able to turn to me . ’ |
| 3 | The standard deviation for the samples of 4 , represented by , will be much smaller than that for the individual observations because of the averaging effect within each sample . |
| 4 | The standard deviation for the samples of 4 , represented by , will be much smaller than that for the individual observations because of the averaging effect within each sample . |
| 5 | The decrease was , however , less than that for the carbon-free granulites , B1 and B2 ( Fig. 1 a ) . |
| 6 | The relationship between platelet aggregation and diabetic control is even more confounding than that for the platelet-specific proteins , various studies either showing no change , increased or decreased platelet aggregation in response to improved glycaemic control . |
| 7 | Between VR 0.4 and 1.2 the hydrocarbon yield is 50% greater than that for the Palaeozoic coals . |
| 8 | I never saw anything like it ; nobody ever saw anything to equal the infinite age which was graven on that fearful countenance , no bigger now than that of a two months old child , though the skull retained its same size ; and let all men pray they never shall , if they wish to keep their reason . |
| 9 | Again lateral deposition will occur , but this time the sediments will have their diachroneity rather better disguised than that of the near-shore deposits . |
| 10 | The bitter lessons of the early years were learnt and digested ; crude though it may have been , Rome 's attitude towards its conquered peoples was far more effective than that of the nineteenth-century imperialists . |
| 11 | For many ‘ chronic ’ patients they could serve little purpose other than that of the tramping houses for vagrants . |
| 12 | The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets . |
| 13 | Interestingly , the distribution of variants in Lurgan is more similar to that of the inner-city areas than that of the outer areas ( a pattern that applies also to other vowel and consonant variables ) . |
| 14 | It was perfectly clear to all four of them that the forensic skills , the intellectual abilities , the sheer weight of grey cellular matter , the brutalizing experience of countless similar quests , possessed by the real experts was infinitely greater than that of the mere professionals . |
| 15 | In use the banding clamp is adjusted before gluing to a diameter slightly larger than that of the assembled segments . |
| 16 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 17 | the median peak acid output in the patients with idiopathic DU ( 37 mmol/h , range 17–52 ) was similar to that of the H pylori positive patients with DU ( 40 ( 15–57 ) ) and higher than that of the non-ulcer controls ( 22 ( 16–29 ) ) . |
| 18 | Despite the widespread diffusion , adaptation , and imitation of the Calvinist psalm-tunes throughout northern Europe , their ultimate contribution to Western music generally was less than that of the Lutheran hymns to which they were so closely related . |
| 19 | However , the scale of slaughter , cruelty and destruction involved in European wars of the seventeenth and subsequent centuries was immeasurably greater than that of the tribal conflicts of the ‘ savages ’ . |
| 20 | The execution , however , and this is typical of the 17th century Dutch masters , is more minute ; and the composition , completely determined by a diagonal , is stricter than that of the English painters . |
| 21 | Methods of manufacturing such zeolites were found later , and these were made with a capacity for the interchange of cations greater than that of the natural materials . |
| 22 | The depth over the entrance sill was almost two metres lower than that of the Old Docks . |
| 23 | She will also want to welcome the fact given in answer to the hon. Member for Peckham ( Ms. Harman ) that the percentage improvement among the poorest groups — what the sociologists call groups 4 and 5 — has been greater than that among the higher groups , so the gap is therefore narrowing . |
| 24 | Marked differences also existed in their relationships with the father of their children : less than two-thirds of the ex-care women but all the comparison women were living with the father of their child . |
| 25 | Iliescu won the presidency with almost 86 per cent of the popular vote , and the NSF secured more than two-thirds of the parliamentary seats . |
| 26 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 27 | Thus , whereas more than half of the straightforward deliveries of ‘ ordinary ’ books were made within 10 minutes , in the case of early or rare books only 45% of straightforward deliveries from the Main Building took under 20 minutes , and nearly half ( 47% ) took more than 35 minutes . |
| 28 | Thurmaston 's northerly neighbour , Syston , had 54 framework knitters , 5 framesmiths and 3 woolcombers recorded in the parish register between 1813 and 1817 ( inclusive ) , but these craftsmen formed less than half of the 128 entries . |
| 29 | One Sunday league official yesterday forecast that more than half of the 130 teams , where boys of between nine and 15 play every Sunday , could go out of existence . |
| 30 | More than half of the 2,000 nurses surveyed said changes to staffing levels where they worked had a detrimental impact on the quality of care . |