Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reason for the better than expected results appeared to be a delay in expenditure by the regional governments but in the longer term he said that cuts in public expenditure had helped to reduce the budget deficit from a peak of almost 13 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) in 1982 to 7.8 per cent in 1988 and 6.6 per cent in 1989 . |
| 2 | In common with the financial markets in which they invest their funds , they are essentially short-term in their outlook , and would rather invest in secure compounds for the rich than extra public spending on the improvement of housing , education and job prospects in the urban ghettos that occasionally trouble them . |
| 3 | Bulmer ( 1975 ) , following Kerr and Siegel ( 1954 ) , has characterized mining communities as isolated and homogeneous , and with a much weaker ‘ exit ’ option for the dissatisfied than is typical of other industrial settlements . |
| 4 | The final type of classification is one that appears to be less rather than more relevant for the 1990s than previously . |
| 5 | But it may be a lot more useful for the latter than the former . |
| 6 | An unexpected side effect of Cromer 's reform of the prison system was to make conditions inside prison better for the poor than they often were outside . |
| 7 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 8 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 9 | This should include a torch ( the batteries of which should be checked regularly for deterioration ) , a box of nightlights , which are safer for the elderly than candles , and a box of safety matches . |
| 10 | In both the United States and Great Britain more people die in hospitals and homes for the elderly than in their own houses . |
| 11 | We probably spent more time watching what happens in facilities where care is provided for the elderly than anyone has done before . |
| 12 | While every clothes store carries a petite range , there is n't one range for the taller than average woman . |
| 13 | Overall , it seems fair to conclude that the right hemisphere does possess some word processing capacity , probably more so for the written than for the spoken word , for concrete or early-learned rather than abstract or later-learned words and for receptive rather than executive aspects of language . |
| 14 | And many American women see Hillary Clinton as much more of role model for the Nineties than the white-haired Barbara Bush . |
| 15 | Not only that , but there are at least half-a-dozen versions vying for pole position at present , to which this new recording from Tadaaki Otaki and the BBC Welsh can safely be added ( the halfstar is only dropped , incidentally , for the less than ideal internal clarity and rhythmic definition of the recording , which is otherwise tonally pleasing and possesses a warm ambience ideal for this particular work 's lush textures ) . |
| 16 | He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself . |
| 17 | It is far easier for the British than for the American executive to do this . |
| 18 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
| 19 | We had been bottom of the league in the 1960s and 1970s , but our GDP , business investment and manufacturing productivity grew faster during the 1980s than in Germany , France or many other countries . |
| 20 | The total number and the number of propagated and non-propagated contractions were two to four times higher during the upright than the supine period ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 21 | The twenty-four were tried by a court of law in the proper way , but the black community and the police began a dialogue that led to far better relations between the two than there had ever been before . |
| 22 | No wonder that comparisons between questionnaires on attitudes and direct observations of behaviour have produced few significant results : in one study , for example , there were fewer correlations between the two than one would expect by chance ! |
| 23 | We know much more about the former than the latter . |
| 24 | That Nicholas was far more concerned about the domestic than the international repercussions of the 1848 revolutions is evident from the much greater dynamism of his domestic behaviour . |
| 25 | If he makes it — and many experts think he can — it will be a massive vindication of his decision four years ago to quit a promising school career after no fewer than nine O-levels , giving up the chance of A-levels and university to turn squash professional at the tender age of just 17 . |
| 26 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 27 | Not healthy , especially coming after a bigger than expected £30bn deficit in the current tax year . |
| 28 | The prayer was answered and , says John , ‘ he had all his lifetime after a more than ordinary fear of God and His presence ’ . |
| 29 | Eventually she ended up at Kirtland AFB , New Mexico , and after a less than spectacular career as a war memorial she was in danger of imminent scrapping . |
| 30 | And if Turgenev were to object that one could not find a more typical product of the 1840s than the Petrashevsky Circle to which Dostoevsky belonged , how would the other man reply ? |