Example sentences of "more [noun sg] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Publishers were looked to for far more support than in the past , as the following interview comments show : ‘ There 's a change from the past , when we used worksheets predominantly , with textbooks just for backup . |
2 | The ITN version suggests that the pickets are still largely to blame for the violence , but the police contribution to disorder is given more emphasis than in the BBC 's bulletin . |
3 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
4 | There was more imitation ice than in The Ancient Mariner , more gilt than in a psychiatrist 's office , more rolled gold than in Acapulco . |
5 | Suppliers admit they get more stability than in the past , but some complain of ruthless use of retail muscle . |
6 | Even the most popular of girls soon discovered that in this highly competitive world where models vied with one another for the most glamorous jobs and the wealthiest and best-looking men there was far more bitchiness than in the provinces — and Paula was far from popular . |
7 | The user must become familiar with the facilities of this search software and therefore may need more training than for the retrieval of information from a database which has been indexed with a controlled indexing language . |
8 | We then re-examined our whole hand , studied in more detail than before the costs and revenues from individual products and found , hey presto ! that we had a mixed bag between the good profit earners and a few large loss leaders and so on and so on . |