Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Clay particles are most cohesive than other soils and deter the pressurising of trapped water , while fine sands are the easiest to liquefy . |
| 3 | The parallels between the work environment and a natural ecosystem will lead to similar responses , and intelligence is vastly quicker than natural selection . |
| 4 | There is always a case for making training rather broader than task-instruction . |
| 5 | It was clearly going to be a little tougher than expected , but the visitors kept playing for hearts as well as minds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rates are fixed according to officially designated subsistence needs which are much lower than net earnings during the period of paid employment . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Although the sums remitted back from the US were much lower than expected , and continuing high taxation rates caused a drain on domestic box office receipts , no attempt was made to rein in film budgets . |
| 10 | Other facts , however , such as a much lower than expected rate in more distant relatives , make a single gene theory seem unlikely . |
| 11 | The survey also found that concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons , the result of the burning of the Kuwaiti oil wells towards the end of the war , were much lower than expected . |
| 12 | Staff were more likely to be reduced to selling snacks during break , which was much less profitable than computing services and much more demeaning for academics . |
| 13 | Of the 146 patients referred for endoscopic treatment of choledocholithiasis the overall success rate for clearing the common bile duct stones was 72.6% which is somewhat lower than other reported series but might reflect the selection of patients to a specialised centre . |
| 14 | Although seroconversion rates after a supplemental ( fourth ) dose of OPV were , in contrast , somewhat lower than expected , rates of secondary 4-fold rises in antibody ( ‘ booster ’ responses ) in seropositive children who received OPV were similar to those found in earlier studies , which suggests that the low response rates in seronegative children were not due to vaccine subpotency . |
| 15 | This leads to tensions which are somewhat higher than original for some of the harpsichords and somewhat lower than original for the later pianos . |
| 16 | To add to the complexity , Maex finds that wages in Asian EPZs tend to be somewhat lower than national averages ( Maex , 1983 , p.53 ) , while Dror suggests that ‘ in most EPZs remuneration is often somewhat higher than in comparable occupations in the same country ’ ( 1984 , p.715 ) . |
| 17 | The energy required to remove the electron depends only on the energy of the level it originally occupied relative to that of an unbound electron , so photoelectron spectra are in principle much simpler than electronic excitation spectra . |
| 18 | He was expected to set an example in knightly exercises , and to show a personal example of prowess in war , although he and his enemies were sufficiently prudent to value him more highly alive than dead , so that a crowned king was rarely killed in battle . |
| 19 | Spock is not advocating spanking , but he thinks it is less destructive than lengthy disapproval , because it clears the air for both parent and child . |
| 20 | Larger chillies tend to be less fiery than small ones . |
| 21 | ‘ Not for the first time ’ , the article concluded , ‘ Italian communism appears economically much harder-headed than British Socialism . ’ |
| 22 | Many of them would do perfectly well in disciplines which are less idiosyncratic than English and have a more obvious international currency , like linguistics or economics or marketing . |
| 23 | A good , old-fashioned keep-fit session seems much healthier than Hindu-inspired life-force exercises which were originally designed as an act of worship to thousands of eastern gods . |
| 24 | Figure 3.5 illustrates that new starts are less stable than established firms , and that exogenous firms are less likely than indigenous firms to create male and skilled employment . |
| 25 | Square planar and square pyramidal methane geometries are much less stable than tetrahedral and are in energy terms incapable of existence , and can only be ‘ examined ’ by calculation . |
| 26 | At close quarters , he appeared less decrepit than dissolute , blotched and bloated like the least repentant of debauchees . |
| 27 | She groaned and cried , feeling , oh , so much readier than usual . |
| 28 | Although single-celled organisms are obviously simpler than complex animals like ourselves , many single-celled organisms have continued to evolve actively since they lived in the ‘ primaeval soup ’ . |
| 29 | In our experiment , male responses to accentuated female models were less strong than female responses to male models ( although both were significant ; Table 1 ) . |
| 30 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |