Example sentences of "more [adj] than [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 2 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 3 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 4 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 5 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 6 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 7 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 8 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 9 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 10 | Fujitsu Ltd sources say that the machine being developed by Hal Computer Systems Inc in the US will be significantly more powerful than the 300 MIPS that has been reported — but 300 MIPS was for one of its Sparc chips . |
| 11 | ‘ I should , but this is more important than a dozen shows . |
| 12 | In the tsar 's view , the new assignment was much more important than the one Paskevich had just completed . |
| 13 | In that respect , Willy Russell has accomplished a considerably trickier feat than Dame Edna : his Shirley Valentine is a one-woman show in which the show is more important than the one woman . |
| 14 | These were more numerous and more complicated than the two groups of conformist and non-conformist boys identified by Willis . |
| 15 | Recording quality is once again hardly subtle , but it is far more vivid than the 1962 version once available on EMI ; beware a glitch in the second movement at 1′21″ which causes a fraction of a beat to be lost , possibly in order to edit out a particularly hacking cough . |
| 16 | Could cars be designed to be much more efficient than the eighteen percent you quote ? |
| 17 | That implies the establishment of some form of institute — if that is not too grandiose a word — some form of organisation , more permanent than a one week ad hoc seminar , such as we have at present . |