Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spring-tined cultivators with tines at about six-inch spacing , are much lighter than chisel ploughs . |
| 2 | Hence the UK framework is far more lenient with regard to non-price than price restraints . |
| 3 | It seemed to Marx that nothing could be more different than kinship relations and relations in the labour market . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'd be more interesting than business letters , I 'll give you that , ’ said Joe , ‘ but no , that 's not me . |
| 5 | And where should I go to see something a bit more interesting than garden birds ? |
| 6 | There is again the advantage for some people new to banking that the hours during which post offices are open to cash cheques are more generous than bank hours . |
| 7 | The ITC guidelines make it clear that it does n't see ‘ sanitised ’ violence as innocuous and Ferman expresses greater concern about Lethal Weapon 2 than Reservoir Dogs . |
| 8 | She understood now that any deal would be no more adequate than baby clothes thrown into the shade of a seagrape tree . |
| 9 | There is now a specific blood test which is far more reliable than stool tests . |
| 10 | And in misty conditions following a bearing will prove more reliable than path traces . |
| 11 | Despite subsidised kindergarten facilities which would be the envy of most Western countries , the fact remains that school hours are invariably shorter than working hours and there is always the problem of what to do when the children are sick . |
| 12 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 13 | It is true , as the UNHCR representative in Sarajevo Larry Hollingworth says , that road convoys are more accurate , carry more tonnage and are far more cost-effective than air drops . |
| 14 | For more than two months the men received full pay but did nothing more strenuous than drink cups of tea and read the paper . |
| 15 | Floor tiles are less widely used than wall tiles , but are a popular choice for heavy traffic areas such as porches and hallways , and also for conservatories . |
| 16 | Metal brushes are more durable than plastic ones , while a wire brush or comb can be particularly valuable during a moulting period , removing dead hair from the coat . |
| 17 | Net interest includes interest payable on precious metal loans ( often referred to as metal ‘ leases ’ ) where rates are usually lower than money loans . |
| 18 | Blaming lower than forecast levels of personal and corporate tax receipts and rising interest rates , the OMB estimated the true level of the 1991 deficit as between $123,000 million and $138,000 million . |
| 19 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard that an investment analyst with the stockbrokers Bell Lawrie White had received information from the chairman of the waste management and construction group , Shanks&McEwan , that profits were going to be lower than City expectations . |
| 20 | Some market makers quoted offer prices of shares in the index lower than bid prices , the opposite of normal market practice , and there were accusations that some market makers did not answer their phones , so that quotes were not accurate . |
| 21 | the major potential confounder is this analysis is pH , because pH values of oesophageal fluid are about 1.0 log point lower than pH values of saliva . |
| 22 | RETIX PROFITS LIKELY TO BE LOWER THAN ANALYST EXPECTATIONS |
| 23 | Research showed that primary community loyalties operated at a level much lower than district boundaries . |
| 24 | For instance , trees bearing edible fruits were made easy to climb , being much lower than forest trees . |
| 25 | These bonds are more subtle than gossamer strands of spiders in the grass and are like the fields of force of electricity or gravity . |
| 26 | in things more telling than lipstick kisses : |
| 27 | Old ladies with thick stockings holding veins like knots of worms , and men whose eyes are duller than clay alleys dream other dreams and watched the numbered screen , killing time , hoping for a win . |
| 28 | Shoemaker asserts that Tunguska-like explosions should be a common fate of small bolides entering the terrestrial atmosphere , provided only that they are less strong than iron objects . |
| 29 | Similarity groups tend to be more unified than proximity groups , and they can be set in competition . |
| 30 | Both have so far proved effective , which shows that ready cash is more versatile than credit cards and cheque books . |