Example sentences of "[prep] [num] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the western Empire was probably in a much weaker position after 406 than the sources suggest . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 3 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 4 | If no date had been fixed by the end of 1997 than the European System of Central Banks had to be established by July 1 , 1998 , and stage three would begin by Jan. 1 , 1999 , at the latest . |
| 5 | The ideal aim is to reduce UVA and UVB equally , so you are not exposed to more of one than the other . |
| 6 | Some theories concern themselves more with the motives of one than the other — seldom is the whole chain of actions discussed . |
| 7 | It may be more of one than the other , depending on the basic approach of the multimedia system . |
| 8 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |
| 9 | It is not enough if the evidence looks stronger against one than the other , if the case can not be proved beyond reasonable doubt . |
| 10 | But , at the same time , the North West saw the largest population slump , with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 11 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 12 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 13 | No sooner had he published Volume I in 1960 than the whole status that he claimed for History , for man , and for their articulation , came under attack . |
| 14 | It is explained as much by Aden Arabie 's colonial , third-world dimension , as it is by its lyrically explosive and liberatingly destructive style which undoubtedly held more appeal for Sartre in 1960 than the more prosaic , communist militant style of Les Chiens de garde , with its undertones of Stalinist party dogma . |
| 15 | I believe Trade Unions recognised that there was more to the Bank Dispute in 1992 than a mere Salary Issue . |
| 16 | Exploration expenditure at £141 million was considerably lower in 1992 than the combined spend for LASMO and Ultramar in 1991 of £200 million ; further significant reductions in exploration expenditure are forecast for 1993 . |
| 17 | In western Germany , for instance , OECD figures suggest that the total of industrial waste was lower in 1990 than a decade earlier . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The oil and gas industry has lost more jobs since 1982 than the country 's car , steel and textile industries combined . |