Example sentences of "more [adj] than the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussion in the Yachting World office has taken some interesting turns lately , none more interesting than the campaign for the single black box , or the all-things-in-one instrument . |
| 2 | By a majority of 56 per cent to 22 per cent , citizens found television more useful than the press for providing issue-information ( a further 22 per cent found them equally useful ) . |
| 3 | By a smaller majority of 48 per cent to 30 per cent , they found tele-Vision more useful than the press for providing information about party leaders ( with 22 per cent , once again , rating the two sources equally useful ) . |
| 4 | This result could have been spelled out more clearly in the statutes but it seems to me to follow from the provisions of the statutes as they stand and , contrary to the argument of Mr. Page , to be no more curious than the alternative for which he contends . |
| 5 | The demand for narrow money M0 or M1 is likely to be more elastic than the demand for broad money M3 , M4 or M5 . |
| 6 | But with respect to foreign economic policy ( excluding the issues of our membership of the European Economic Community ) and stabilisation policy the evidence for continuity is rather more plain than the evidence for discontinuity . |
| 7 | The search for general information is more difficult than the search for specific information because all directions are relevant . |
| 8 | Easton 's district is more prosperous than the norm for these two council districts , with an overall unemployment rate in 1981 of 9.2 per cent , compared with 19.5 per cent for the two district council areas . |