Example sentences of "[adj] than in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was a lot cleaner than in commune days . |
| 2 | Why do my titles come out better in French than in English ? he wrote . |
| 3 | Similar choices in other languages may , on the other hand , be even more marked than in English . |
| 4 | The war was also a business in which it was apparently no easier than in peace to obtain just treatment for seaman , whatever hardships they might be suffering . |
| 5 | In summer the days are longer and warmer and the nights are shorter than in autumn . |
| 6 | Generally , lower doses are used than in organ transplantation . |
| 7 | The coefficient of fat absorption was 81.3 ( 9.1 ) % and 85.7 ( 3.9 ) % in the patients with and without liver disease respectively and significantly lower than in control subjects ( 97.1 ( 0.5 ) % ; p<0.01 ; Table II ) . |
| 8 | Consumption in period t + 5 will therefore be unchanged : But investment will fall again : Since investment falls and consumption stays the same , income in period t + 5 will be lower than in period t + 4 : So far in the analysis , the single increase in autonomous investment of £10 has caused income to rise from £1,000 to £1,025 in the first four time periods and then to start to fall in the fifth . |
| 9 | Such a model is endorsed by 3 He/ 4 He ratios lower than in MORB for the Cameroon line , suggesting a history of U enrichment . |
| 10 | Moreover , the direct dependence of the war effort upon industrial output rendered workers ' resort to the strike weapon even more devastating than in peacetime , and from the summer of 1915 there was a resurgence of industrial stoppages . |
| 11 | In East Africa the landed class and indigenous bourgeoisie was much less prominent than in South Asia . |
| 12 | The S8 molecules in a-sulphur are more densely packed than in B-sulphur . |
| 13 | Learning to approach F+ was characterized by more direct paths in group fixed than in group varied ( Fig. 1 b , c ) . |
| 14 | These are not actually recorded on police statistics but th nevertheless they could have been much more serious than in fact they were . |
| 15 | The autumn passage of birds through Shetland tends to be more noticeable than in spring , and there are several reasons for this : there are many more birds on the move because the migrating flocks include all the young birds raised during the summer . |
| 16 | Because of its demands on our energy in dealing with gravity , we take it to be steeper than in fact it is . |
| 17 | However , the mortality rate due to acute gastroenteritis was lower in vitamin-A-supplemented than in placebo clusters ( 0.66 [ 0.47–0.92 ] , p=0.02 ) ; mortality rates for all other causes except acute lower respiratory infections and malaria were also lower in vitamin A clusters , but not significantly so . |
| 18 | This welcome trend towards honesty in the messy business of personal hygiene is never more obvious than in nappy advertising where one current ad merrily alludes to ‘ No 2s ’ . |
| 19 | In no field is this more obvious than in community care of frail elderly people , for the coordination of services , some from different agencies , is pivotal to their well-being . |
| 20 | Typically , because people elsewhere married much younger than in north-west Europe , they became grandparents younger — so there were simply more grandparents around . |
| 21 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 22 | While prices in many parts of northern France are still cheaper than in south west England , those who dabble in French residential property will quickly discover there are few fat profits to be made . |
| 23 | However , since the legislation will still declare that rape is sexual intercourse without consent and since no comprehensive definition of this requirement will be provided , the law will appear far more protective than in fact it is . |
| 24 | Avoidance is a grey area at the boundaries of legality and illegality , and though it is an approach employed in many areas of law , it is nowhere more clearly institutionalised than in tax law . |
| 25 | Francis was n't wrong , but change is regarded with suspicion , nowhere more than in football . |
| 26 | King ( 1990 ) similarly suggests that topicalization , as evident in the use of expressions such as os pros , oson afora , and oso ya ( all of which mean something like ‘ as for ’ or ‘ with regards to ’ ) , is more common in Greek than in English and that Greek learners of English tend to overuse this structure . |
| 27 | In style the seminal confusion of a transitional phase is no less evident than in subject . |
| 28 | Never is this more evident than in Cover Girl Poker . |
| 29 | In death she looked more beautiful than in life . |
| 30 | Lisa B looks older than in person , more sophisticated and completely au fait with the eye of the camera . |