Example sentences of "[prep] more [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 2 | Place and spirit of place is the inspiration of more poetry than we nowadays like to admit ; and to do that poetry justice , the critic needs to turn himself into a tourist . |
| 3 | Are they guilty of more abuse than domestic companies ? |
| 4 | Friendly enthusiastic , yeah , did n't use any slang erm the link was there , the attention to the client 's responses that was good , I was saying to erm th th that , that sales people tend to be a bit sort of more rabbit than Watership Down , you know that they 're |
| 5 | It was n't that I thought myself deserving of more delight than was offered the mass of mankind ( I told myself ) but that the common lot seemed so dire . |
| 6 | Georgia had long provided a cadre for the Social Democratic movement , and the Tiflis Soviet was of more substance than many in the region . |
| 7 | In a similar vein , Geis ( 1978 : 281 ) writes that ‘ the heavy electrical equipment price-fixing conspiracy alone involved theft from the American people of more money than was stolen in all of the country 's robberies , burglaries , and larcenies during the years in which the price fixing occurred ’ . |
| 8 | GOING to the theatre , concerts and art galleries remains largely the privilege of the well-off and well-educated , and of more women than men , research shows . |
| 9 | It resumed on Aug. 15 for only two hours before being postponed again , amid continuing disputes and a second boycott of the conference by opposition parties because of the presence of more delegates than had been authorized ( 4,288 as opposed to 2,850 ) . |
| 10 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 11 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 12 | The partial remedy , for no one could think of exhaustive response , was to clear London and other big cities of children aged under fifteen , the sick and the handicapped : all those who were of more hindrance than help to the defence effort . |
| 13 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 14 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 15 | A serious extension of the simple analysis presented in the previous paragraph would be of more help than a thousand more studies documenting that socio-economic differentials in mortality exist . |
| 16 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 17 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 18 | I went to the cinema considering that that would be of more benefit than taking a Latin exam that I could not pass . |
| 19 | However , mixing of modes of the same symmetry and similar frequency often occurs , so that deuterium substitution causes shifts of more bands than might have been expected . |
| 20 | This is of more value than infrequent formal contact |
| 21 | Counselling sensitivity and insight can often be of more value than strictly medical knowledge . |
| 22 | ‘ The mere suggestion of a silhouette of chimneys , hidden behind a sycamore tree in the next door garden , may prove of more value than the carefully-studied roof lines in the architect 's perspective , ’ he wrote in ‘ Castles . ’ |
| 23 | But in fact the experimental results turn out to allow of more ambiguity than has commonly been supposed . |
| 24 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 25 | Pumlumon said in a voice of utmost astonishment , ‘ But has your honour never heard of the Draoicht Suan ? ’ and was instantly hushed by Bith of the Bog-Hat , who had by now sensed that something was wrong , being a gnome of more percipience than his fellows and who liked , no more than Fenella , the manner in which Goibniu was eyeing them all . |
| 26 | Her day will probably be crammed with essential tasks ; an older child may well be feeling jealous and therefore be in need of more attention than usual ; money may be in short supply — and time certainly will be . |
| 27 | He has need of more wits than mine , and two who will stand by him is better than one . ’ |
| 28 | This makes military research and development by far the most important scientific activity — important in numbers of scientists involved and money spent ; it is also the most important in that it threatens the annihilation of more people than any other human activity . |
| 29 | And as phones get cheaper , they are within the reach of more people than just businessmen . |
| 30 | A deficiency of some manually-digitized data is due to the inclusion of more points than are needed to define the position of a line to a given level of accuracy . |