Example sentences of "[adj] than the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 2 | Fitting the PT6As requires major surgery to the fuselage because they are much lighter than the R-1830s and would radically alter the DC-3's centre of gravity . |
| 3 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 4 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 5 | Even easier than the tens yeah ? |
| 6 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 7 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 8 | Dressed in a pair of designer jeans that were stretched over her buttocks like clingfilm , and with blotchy skin without a trace of make-up , she looked closer to fifty than the forty Dexter knew she really was . |
| 9 | But for the whole economy the increase is only 1.9 per cent , better than the 1970s but lower than the 1960s . |
| 10 | For all three junction types the mean value of B is lower than the 3.5 expected for unbiased responding despite the fact that overall subjects gave more ‘ No ’ responses than ‘ Yes ’ ones . |
| 11 | The number of applications was only 65,623 , far lower than the 300,000 expected [ see also p. 38098 , whhich includes provisional figures ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |
| 14 | For both Lothian and Scotland the 1991 totals are lower than the 1981–85 base but higher than the 1991 ‘ interim ’ target . |
| 15 | It was pointed out that this ensured the highest quality from such a large harvest and that the overall permitted yield of 95 hectolitres per hectare was in fact lower than the 95.3 hectolitres per hectare granted in 1982 . |
| 16 | The bursts were more often present during periods of low swallowing rate ( for example , sleep ) : the mean swallowing frequency during the period of non-deglutitive motor activity was 0.51 ( 0.29 ) swallows/min , which was significantly lower than the 0.99 ( 0.26 ) /min swallowing rate during the remainer of the recording period ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 17 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 18 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 19 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 20 | Salonen was nearer to crotchet = 44 than the 60 marked in the score , which makes quite a bit of difference to its sense of momentum , and his version as a whole is not untarnished by affectation . |
| 21 | Bigger than the 88000 |
| 22 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 23 | In this respect the proposed test is , if anything , clearer than the two rivals . |
| 24 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 25 | He would send it to Baghdad or Cairo , and , within minutes , men even more serious than the two in the Frog and Ferret would be on their way to Wimbledon with automatic rifles . |
| 26 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Microsoft Corp 's managed to squeeze NT on to 14 diskettes , a sight fewer than the 32 for OS/2 . |
| 29 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 30 | Information flow in TRACE is very elegantly and easily controlled , but the system is , in some ways , far less ambitious than the three previous systems . |