Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | west London ; much less important in the nineteenth century than it is now , Oxford Street runs east-west , dividing Mayfair to the south from Marylebone to the north . |
| 2 | Cattle stealing was more sensitive to economic fluctuations in the twentieth century than it had been earlier . |
| 3 | For Thomas Dimove , a spokesman for the ex-Yugoslav Macedonians , it is a matter simply of acknowledging that Macedonia is an entirely different entity in the twentieth century than it was in the period shown in the exhibition . |
| 4 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 5 | The number of those over pensionable age will be far higher in the next century than it is today . |
| 6 | The rate of increase of river flow will be greater in the urbanized basin than it would be if the basin were still covered by natural vegetation . |
| 7 | Mercury 's distance from the Sun , varying from between 29 and 43 million miles , would make the Sun seem three times bigger in the Mercurian sky than it would on Earth . |
| 8 | In 1972 the US spent three times more on family planning in the Third World than it did on health : ‘ It 's a right-wing plot ’ , some declared . |
| 9 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 10 | In the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor , at p. 102 , ‘ its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . ’ |
| 11 | In my judgment its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . |
| 12 | This would put the vendor in a better position than it would have otherwise been in had the sale not taken place . |
| 13 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 14 | Vermuyden had been occupied with rebuilding the Thames flood defences at Dagenham , which , according to an inquiry of 1623 , he left ‘ in a worse condition than it was before ’ . |
| 15 | Any kind of first occasion always seems more difficult than subsequent occasions and this is no less true of a change in an electoral system than it is of any other kind of change . |
| 16 | Precipitation is conducted to the nearest water course much more quickly in an urban area than it is in a natural drainage basin , so the building of a new town or the extension of an existing town can have a considerable effect on the rate at which the water level of a river rises after a storm . |