Example sentences of "than [adv] the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 2 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
| 3 | Access requires more than just the existence of possibilities . |
| 4 | It goes wider than just the position of individuals , important though that is . |
| 5 | However , there 's a lot more to consider than just the number of columns . |
| 6 | Unemployment has fallen by 70 per cent since the mid-eighties in Telford but it 's about more than just the number of jobs , it 's the quality of jobs , the skills that erm are offered in terms of the training that 's available in the area , and the whole atmosphere of the town has been completely transformed by moving from an older and established industrial climate to one that encompasses a wide range of modern and high tech industries . |
| 7 | All told , it will more than double the number of computers in Californian schools . |
| 8 | All this simply reinforces my earlier point that not only must the field anthropologist pay close attention to the difference between normative rules and social practice but that the study of kinship is something far more complicated than simply the study of genealogies or the ramifying biological links of the domestic family . |
| 9 | The meanings of certain types of phrases have come to mean more than simply the combination of words from which they are composed ( sometimes they bear no relation to their constituents ) . |
| 10 | Fats contain more than twice the amount of calories as carbohydrates or proteins for the same weight . |
| 11 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |