Example sentences of "[noun] than other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bureaucracy enjoys more material rewards and privileges than other sectors of society . |
| 2 | Perhaps this was because with two full tanks and six people aboard we were just short of the 5,090-pound max weight — or more likely Tony was deliberately limiting the output of his nearly-new engine below the normal 36 inches and 2,300 rpm , but the long Wiplines seemed to have a much less clearly defined hump than other floats I have flown . |
| 3 | Households aged 75 and over are more likely to live in unfit homes and lack basic amenities than other household types . |
| 4 | Now C D thirty one is an endophilial cell adhesion molecule and the antibody has been shown to be the most specific marker of vascoendophilia and consistently in studies has stained more vessels than other markers . |
| 5 | Hill farms in Scotland employ more hired labour than other farm categories ; there being only 60% with working occupiers as compared with 81% in upland farms . |
| 6 | For the most part , the biologically active forms of gastrin — that is , C-terminally amidated peptides , were found in much lower concentrations than other progastrin derived peptides . |
| 7 | This is the technocratic view , that experts ' opinions carry a greater weight than other people 's . |
| 8 | Libya had a wealthier , more urbanized , more stably employed population than any of them and , by every canon of development science , Libyans ought to have been less influenced by atavism than other North Africans . |
| 9 | The services provided by local government are labour intensive and have fewer opportunities than other branches of the economy for introducing labour-saving equipment . |
| 10 | But when he kept salmon in water with lethal levels of aluminium and much higher silicon concentrations , not only did the fish survive , they absorbed less aluminium than other fish kept in normal water . |
| 11 | It is becoming less popular now because of the lack of support it gives to the lower back , although it does give more buoyancy than other types . |
| 12 | Though one always has to treat figures such as these with caution , it does seem that the line-out project had considerable success both in terms of a reduction in operator dissatisfaction , reflected in lower turnover and a less rapid increase in absenteeism than other parts of the plant , and in terms of very substantial savings for management because of the increased flexibility of production it gave them . |
| 13 | She considers this to be a more realistic figure than other estimates which might be based on the literature since there is probably a tendency to over-report cases of crossed-aphasia ( i.e. presumptive lesion and preferred hand on the same side ) in dextrals because of their rarity . |
| 14 | The Writer is aware of one scheme where the planning brief was ignored by a developer , who as a result achieved an increase in density and was able to submit a substantially higher tender figure than other developers who had conformed to the planning brief . |
| 15 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 16 | The spotted eagle owl and European eagle owl assemblages again have more damage than other species , and the kestrel and hen harrier , together with the short-eared owl and some of the mammalian carnivores , are more extreme still . |
| 17 | This happens more often in indecent assault cases than other sex crimes . |
| 18 | Now that attitude is changing , most obviously on the West Coast , which has more money than other earthquake zones to experiment with new designs and materials . |
| 19 | The 10% of our sample who cohabit outside marriage are more interested in money than other groups and express a high interest in their partner . |
| 20 | A crucial Keynesian assumption is that if holders of speculative money balances decide to hold their wealth in some other form , they are likely to purchase financial assets since these are taken to be closer substitutes for money than other types of assets . |
| 21 | A further important aspect of the assessment process was the significance of ASW consultation with male family members , associated with section 2 more than section 3 and to a greater degree with GP than other referrals with non admission . |
| 22 | They are even more passionate about comics than other Japanese . |
| 23 | Miners in general worked fewer hours than other workers . |
| 24 | Any female who did not prefer males with the deleteriously exaggerated trait would indeed produce fitter sons than other females ; however , no one would mate with them . |
| 25 | It is as if literature were perhaps necessarily less susceptible to the temptations of logocentrism than other forms of discourse . |
| 26 | Since some speakers ( those who have low " competence " ) do not use many Patois features anyway , these speakers will have a lower Patois index than other speakers who code switch to the same extent , but who use more Patois features in the Patois part of their talk . |
| 27 | My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked . |
| 28 | Shearwaters and petrels belong to a group called the tube-noses , for their nostrils are protected by a pair of tubes which extend some way down the beak from its base and these give them a much better perception of smell than other birds have . |
| 29 | Labour councils also paid higher subsidies in the housing field than other councils , irrespective of needs or resource availability . |
| 30 | Like all ideas it exists in the minds of people who think it , but it is further from the world of everyday immediate experience than other ideas such as power or friendship . |