Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 2 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 3 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 4 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 5 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 6 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 7 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 8 | A reverberant place such as a church , empty hall or tiled kitchen is less easy than a room with some sound-absorbent furnishings , such as heavy curtains and thick carpet . |
| 9 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 10 | Often , to have a solid example in front of you is less daunting than a drawing . |
| 11 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 12 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 13 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |
| 14 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 15 | If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition . |
| 16 | Without question , a gazelle in a herd is much safer than a gazelle by itself . |
| 17 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 18 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 19 | The burrow , on the other hand , may be just one section of a warren or it may be a single burrow system which is much smaller than a warren and exists in isolation from other rabbit holes . |
| 20 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 21 | The other has no chequebook facilities , but provided the balance is not less than a minimum of £10,000 , interest will be paid on the full amount . |
| 22 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 23 | If you want me to identify a fish , remember that a photo , or a drawing , is usually better than a description — and it is no end of help if you give me a clue as to where the fish comes from , even if it 's only the continent . |
| 24 | This process is known as segmentation , and methods vary considerably resulting in individual strokes , characters , or some unit which is usually less than a character . |
| 25 | The plea of its difficulty will not hold , for as a consummation is always simpler than a beginning , the ‘ Propertius ’ is certainly much simpler than some of Pound 's shorter earlier works whose content is sometimes elusive , tenuous , evanescent … |
| 26 | We can not prevent old age , but we can be aware of its side effects ; we can prevent over-attached dog relationships — and prevention is always better than a cure . |
| 27 | It is still less than a century since the Putney debates of 1647 were first published and the significance of the Levellers began to be appreciated . |
| 28 | This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card . |
| 29 | Diderot is hardly more than a name . |
| 30 | Alan from Derby says , I wonder why wearing a wig is any worse than a woman wearing make-up . |