Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pumping Station at this village on the River Witham near Tattershall was built to drain the surrounding land because shrinkage of the peat ( see Holme Fen ) has left the surface level lower than the rivers . |
| 2 | LUXURY TOUCH : He ordered decorators to coat the walls with an expensive marble-effect finish — about three times dearer than the standard chip paper and emulsion he had chosen earlier . |
| 3 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 4 | McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study showed clearly that the personal incomes of ex-carers were around £40 lower than the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) per capita average , while the incomes of two-adult households containing an ex-carer were £144 a week lower than their FES counterparts . |
| 5 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 6 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 7 | Few reports about this species are received annually , but these suggest that it is some three to four times scarcer than the Common Partridge . |
| 8 | The X100 will be as much as 610mm shorter than the 4724mm ( 15ft 6ins ) XJS , not least because the 1220mm rear overhang will be halved . |
| 9 | They changed that , so the money er it 's a bit different than the Maxwell , the money has n't been erm a switched over to the Cayman Islands and all over the place , it 's it 's stayed in , in the but of course we 're told by the trustees and by our legal advice that nothing illegal 's taken place , the money 's been used to st er finance early voluntary retirement etcetera , etcetera . |
| 10 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 11 | Erm I I foresee the possibility that erm we would be faced with lesser proposals lesser than the scale that erm Professor Lock contemplates because it would be said , well if fifty hectares is right for Ha er for Harrogate then what twenty hectares for Richmondshire ten hectares . |
| 12 | During a month-long survey , Lyme Regis passed the EC 's guideline for faecal coliforms which is 20 times tougher than the basic standard . |
| 13 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 14 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 15 | I found it boring , self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it 's based . |
| 16 | You will not be at a level a good deal lower than the surrounding ground , so you will have to lay a hardcore base to build up the foundations to suit the path material and method of laying . |
| 17 | He was much paler himself , and looked a good deal sicker than the red-cheeked young man . |
| 18 | The ‘ compact ’ skis of the 1970s that were such a wheeze ( as opposed to a sneeze ) in powder were up to 10% broader than the skis we use today — they had typical sidecuts at the waist of around 70mm , compared to the slimline ( 63mm to 66mm ) skis that are more common today . |
| 19 | They shuffled off , Mrs Stead-Carter brisker than the others , Miss Poraway waiting to say good-bye . |
| 20 | Although Buddie seemed to loom like a lusty giant over Frankie , he was a good deal shorter than the other men who worked around Old Ashfield . |
| 21 | She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other . |
| 22 | I 'm afraid it 's a good deal classier than the tumble-down old Pullmans I 've found for the rest of you . ’ |
| 23 | The thin plastic flange in the centre of the connectors must be removed with a pair of pliers , to enable it to slide completely over the new , smaller piece of pipe , which should be cut 10 to 20mm shorter than the measured gap . |
| 24 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 25 | Finally , you will get slightly improved sound insulation as well — although for best results you need an air gap bigger than the 20mm maximum usually found in sealed units , and you may want to consider having secondary acoustic double glazing as well . |
| 26 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 27 | American novelist Nelson Algren , which Bair claims was a good deal happier than the Memoirs imply . |
| 28 | This dual emphasis on the reader and on analysis of texts in units larger than a sentence seems to offer the beginnings at least of a new approach to text research , one which moves beyond a correlational approach to readability and starts instead to identify causal relationships between aspects of texts and difficulties in comprehension . |
| 29 | Exactly the same issues arise in relation to the task of spelling non-words to dictation , and here again it appears that this not done solely by phoneme-grapheme rules , but that some role is played by units larger than the grapheme ( Campbell , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | the measure of damages awarded to a plaintiff who was obliged to incur hire charges following a road traffic accident could include ( i ) the cost of hire of a car larger than the plaintiff 's own ( ii ) the cost of hire after completion of repairs pending receipt by the plaintiff from the defendant 's insurer of funds to meet the repairers bill . |