Example sentences of "in [noun sg] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by the time Lamb had bludgeoned England to safety ( and himself to a Test-best score ) , ably supported by Russell , Gooch 's closure was more in hope than a genuine expectation of victory . |
| 2 | We are also at an advantage in having a Data Protection Act , which is more use in practice than a vague bill of rights . |
| 3 | Second , the judicial powers of the Council were greater in practice than the official limit , a five-hundred-drachma fine : Aristophanes speaks as if the proposal to execute the poet Euripides was a Council matter ( Thesmophoriazusai 1.79 ) , and in the 360s the Council put to death a political assassin on the island of Keos ( Tod 142 = HD 55 ) . |
| 4 | There are few better things in nature than a pure country girl . ’ |
| 5 | Under Labour , a British family with one earner and two children earning £50,000 a year , would pay a third more in tax than a French family on the same income . |
| 6 | In 1900 they were no more often in poverty than the working class of any age , but by 1935 they had become significantly more vulnerable , and in 1950 the elderly comprised over two-thirds of all the poor . |
| 7 | A Raw linseed oil is lighter in colour than the boiled variety but they are both used in wood finishing . |
| 8 | Route mileage alone is not a very useful index of service quality since a reduction in frequency in one area can constitute a more serious deterioration in service than a complete closure of a very lightly used route elsewhere ( Moseley et al . |
| 9 | Detailed terms of reference of the inquiry — wider in scope than the specific case in question — were announced by the Prime Minister , John Major , on Nov. 16 . |
| 10 | As a result , an accused person in Dorset ( for example ) is 10 times more likely to be remanded in custody than a similar person in Bedfordshire . |
| 11 | It is oblong in shape and actually larger in area than the average ear . |
| 12 | There is nothing more baffling in cricket than the continuing reluctance of umpires to move for the adoption of TV assistance for narrow run-out and stumping decisions . |
| 13 | Comparison with the Raman spectrum of the gas shows that the strong Raman band in this region is some 20 cm -1 lower in frequency than the observed IR band . |
| 14 | The White Welsh is generally rougher in coat than the White Park and tends to have bluish flecks and patches on the neck and shoulders rather than black . |
| 15 | A wound ball reacts much more to the change in temperature than a solid ball . |
| 16 | The Nab is an excellent viewpoint , better in fact than the actual summit of Wild Boar Fell although of lower elevation . |
| 17 | In 1966 it received $130 million , of which 71 per cent was in military assistance , more in fact than the cumulative total of military assistance from 1948 . |
| 18 | A bundle of light fibres , which together forms a cable smaller in diameter than a coaxial wire , can carry several hundred TV channels — more than even the most hardened television addict will ever require . |
| 19 | Note that the apoptotic cells in e , f are about three times smaller in diameter than the normal cell in d . |