Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ The figures we have access to put it rather lower than that . |
| 3 | They have probably been more widely used than any other book in the private devotions of Anglicans . |
| 4 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
| 5 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 6 | Clay particles are most cohesive than other soils and deter the pressurising of trapped water , while fine sands are the easiest to liquefy . |
| 7 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 8 | The parallels between the work environment and a natural ecosystem will lead to similar responses , and intelligence is vastly quicker than natural selection . |
| 9 | There is always a case for making training rather broader than task-instruction . |
| 10 | It was clearly going to be a little tougher than expected , but the visitors kept playing for hearts as well as minds . |
| 11 | The fly pole is only a little shorter than two of the smaller inner tent poles , so unless you identify this it can be confusing in the dark . |
| 12 | Why do you think that direct file organization is less used than some other file organization techniques ? |
| 13 | She is the Blackrag Madonna , and her prophecies are madder , darker and less coherent than those of the wildest shamen two levels up . |
| 14 | If you are away for several weeks your phone bill should be much lower than normal and you will automatically receive a Low User Rental Rebate . |
| 15 | Since much of equity returns are in the form of capital gains , at least in the long run , which are taxed only on realisation , personal tax on equity returns is generally in effect much lower than that on the returns to investing in a company 's debt . |
| 16 | You do n't get much lower than that , Nick , and if anyone wants to kick the balls of the people who put her there , then those are my guys . ’ |
| 17 | The activity level , however , was much lower than that of the Rowdies and some of the fans in this group were only infrequent attenders at football matches . |
| 18 | For example , the quality of housing occupied by ethnic minorities is much lower than that occupied by whites ( see chapter 7 , section 7.3 ) . |
| 19 | Couples with children also fared badly during the 1980s , but their risk of poverty still remains much lower than that of lone parents ( 18 per cent in 1988 , up from 9 per cent in 1979 ) . |
| 20 | Moreover , in cases where single stranded DNA is desired from PCR TM II , the host cells must be infected by a helper phage and the yield of a single stranded DNA preparation is much lower than that from filamentous bacteriophage vectors carrying the same segment of foreign DNA ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | It is probably true that in most online catalogue searching both recall and precision are much lower than that which a good intermediary would obtain in reference retrieval searching . |
| 22 | Yet , in this study the amount of platelet activating factor ( 0.03 pg/ml ; 1.2 ng/h ) is much lower than that of lyso platelet activating factor ( 0.09 ng/ml ; 6.1 µg/h ) and AAGPC ( 0.14 µg/ml ; 11.5 µg/h ) suggesting that platelet activating factor degradation may not be the only source of platelet activating factor precursors under pentagastrin stimulation . |
| 23 | As expected , the carcinoma incidence in the under 50s ( 0.6% ) was very much lower than that observed in the 50 to 70 years age group ( 7.5% ) or the over 70 years group ( 11.6% ) The incidences of adenoma in these age groups were 6.2 , 31.5 , and 32.2% respectively . |
| 24 | The small negative slope after in vitro CO 2 equilibration of gall bladder bile ( ) is much lower than that found in human serum of -0.23 . |
| 25 | It 's Kevin Howley , whose profile both in feet and inches and column inches is now very much lower than that of the towering P N Willis . |
| 26 | So your costs in insurance are much lower than many other comparable firms ? |
| 27 | Rates are fixed according to officially designated subsistence needs which are much lower than net earnings during the period of paid employment . |
| 28 | Your figure of thirty seven percent is much lower than most other series but most other series have different definitions er of obstruction . |
| 29 | For fertility m=1 , the life history that maximizes fitness ( r ) involves substantial senescence , in the sense that adult survival is much lower than juvenile , J=0.945 , A=0.505 ( open circle in Fig. 2 ) . |
| 30 | Past gradients seem unlikely to have fallen much lower than this for substantial periods of time . |