Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] than more " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no evidence , however , that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modern publications . |
| 2 | The table also makes it clear that older publications were not necessarily in a significantly greater state of disrepair than more recent items . |
| 3 | For example , each model sees the amount of legitimacy conferred upon a dispute as influencing the way it is handled by the police ; and there is similar agreement that deep-seated ‘ ideological issues ’ are more commonly associated with disorder than more mundane ‘ material issues ’ . |
| 4 | Narrow topics like " Whig reforms 1 830–41 " or " the suffragette movement " are less likely to be overburdened with detail than more general topics like British foreign policy , 1815–65 " or " Britain 's inter-war economy " . |
| 5 | Mothers who had finished full time education before age 17 were more likely to have their membranes artificially ruptured before labour than more educated women ( 120/972 ( 12% ) v 33/422 ( 8% ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 6 | There are several signs in the twelfth edition that the writer still hankers for the old methods , despite the necessity for tempering some of the more repressive advice , and the book remains far more authoritarian in tone than more recently written baby books . |
| 7 | Corning 's high-quality , high-priced pots and pans are more vulnerable to recession than more humble vessels . |
| 8 | Booth ( 1985 ) identified that there are likely to be multiple regimes in local authority homes , with very frail residents likely to be more bound by regulations than more active alert people . |