Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Queen Elizabeth is already the longest-serving monarch of the twentieth century , and may possibly be on the throne even longer than Victoria . |
| 2 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 3 | In the polling booth your mind 's eye sees the deductions on the payslip more vividly than the hospital queues . |
| 4 | Elsewhere also there was an increasing tendency to demarcate frontiers on the ground more clearly than ever before , as when at the end of the Thirty Years War that in Pomerania between Swedish and Brandenburg territory was marked out with boundary-stones . |
| 5 | The touch judges ' flags were on the pitch more often than off it in a game I saw recently here ( in Eastern Province , South Africa ) . |
| 6 | He chooses to tap his fag packet round and round on the tabletop again rather than speak to me , so I say , ‘ Well , I 'm not sure about that , but it 's certainly somebody who knows me ; I mean , I think that card with my writing on it proves that . |