Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think this place is more suited for that than any island . ’ |
| 2 | They get much angrier about this than egalitarian feminist psychologists do . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not the sort of work Super Mario has ever had to do , but I feel a little more patriotic about this than any of my other jobs , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Surely the magic has been lost from pop music because she is now nearer 30 than 13 . |
| 5 | The number of passengers carried was 11.5 million in 1913 , 7 million in 1920 , and 12 million by 1924 : the productivity of river transport rose much faster after 1921 than that of the railways , although many problems had to be overcome , as was seen with regard to the Volga fleet in Chapter 3 . |
| 6 | The likely truth lies in those still-sealed files on chemical warfare experiments — but the riddle of Shingle Street refuses to be buried after more than half a century . |
| 7 | A CITY-IMPOSED curfew is forcing the Hollywood Palladium to shut down after more than half a century of entertainment ranging from Lawrence Welk to the Rolling Stones , officials said yesterday . |
| 8 | If you leave this at the exit of ‘ San Donato ’ and turn right towards Tavernelle , after less than half a mile — along a turning on the right — you will come to the 16th century Villa Fillinelle . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , we understand less about temporal than spatial processes in development . |
| 10 | A MASSIVE 96 per cent of road accident and assault victims in Britain have less chance of surviving than similar cases in the USA . |
| 11 | Petr Semenov , a liberally inclined participant in the emancipation process , believed that in appointing Panin the tsar had in fact " revealed a greater degree of far-sightedness than any of those active in the peasant question " . |
| 12 | The stream-of-consciousness novel only ‘ shows ’ us the operations of the mind by another kind of telling than straightforward authorial report . |
| 13 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 14 | Nor is there any question of his being elected thanks to a miscellaneous accumulation of votes of lower than first preference : all the votes are clear-cut votes of first and only preference . |
| 15 | Furthermore , over the same period there was a shift towards indirect taxation , which tends to take a greater proportion of the income of lower than higher income groups . |
| 16 | On average , inner London districts employ around one third fewer district nurses per capita of the resident population over the age of 75 than comparable districts outside London and the cost per contact is 60% higher than the national average . |
| 17 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 18 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 19 | A matter of murder-more than one murder , highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too . |
| 20 | Askham 's study in Aberdeen ( 1975 ) showed that much of the high fertility of parents of larger than average families ( four plus children ) was unwanted . |
| 21 | The District became responsible for Terminal and Short courses extending over six to twelve meetings as well as a variety of informal , pioneering courses and discussion groups of fewer than six meetings ; the last category attracting grant-aid for the first time . |
| 22 | The outstanding fact of the position in 1974 was that the region had 6,000 beds within the six large hospitals , but serving a population of fewer than 4 million . |
| 23 | Nutritionists and cartographers still draw the so-called ‘ hunger line ’ through Asia and the Americas ; the poorer people who live in those countries that are sandwiched between Mexico and Chile , and between North Korea and New Guinea , exist on diets of fewer than 2,250 calories a day , and thus go to bed each night hungry . |
| 24 | The dead bird , one of fewer than 200 surviving red kites in Britain and tagged by the RSPB , was found on farmland near St Austell , Cornwall , on Dec 16 . |
| 25 | Instead , they have allowed a small group of directors of retail stores — Woolworth , Sainsbury , Tesco and the like — to dictate a fundamental change in our way of life for their own self-interest and to the benefit of fewer than 5 per cent . |
| 26 | Because there is space to print only a small proportion of the letters received , priority is usually given according to general interest and topicality , to contributions of fewer than 500 words , and to contributions using simple language . |
| 27 | Priority is given to letters of fewer than 500 words . |
| 28 | The project , referred to as the Telal , Telecoms and Local Administrations , programme , aims to improve telecommunications services for the local administrations of towns of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants . |
| 29 | It is likely that a group of fewer than 100 boat people will be sent back just before the arrival in Hong Kong of the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , planned for mid-January . |
| 30 | The pit canteen is the only women 's workplace , for example , in a pit village of fewer than 100 households I visited . |