Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than most " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Your figure of thirty seven percent is much lower than most other series but most other series have different definitions er of obstruction . |
| 3 | The conductor , who has overall charge of the train , was less friendly than most . |
| 4 | We are far less controversial than most of them … and lets face it , anyone who receives mail from the list has to go out of their way to get that mail … unlike fanzines . |
| 5 | ABARE says some policies , such as lump sum payments not related to production or to input use , or production entitlement guarantees ( PEGs ) , which provide budget financed support on limited quantities , are far less distorting than most current policies . |
| 6 | Less gregarious than most vultures , but will join Griffons at carcasses . |
| 7 | These leeches are much tougher than most — see the Profiles section . |
| 8 | Partly because the trauma that attended the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi altered voting patterns , the loss of support by his centrist Congress Party to its rivals on the right and left was less marked than most observers anticipated . |
| 9 | She is also much taller than most of the grubby little men , which may have something to do with it . |
| 10 | And if they are from Yorkshire , they are five times less likely than most women to wear knickers underneath . |
| 11 | The Ministry of Defence was a typical government ministry in the Soviet Union , except that it was much larger than most . |
| 12 | He is respected , popular and ( although once chairman of the Conservative Party ) less partisan than most politicians . |
| 13 | Making an allowance for this , and taking into account the proportion of members ' savings actually loaned out , would put the effective cost of credit union loans at the time of this comparison at around 17.5 per cent : still as cheap as the very cheapest commercial alternative then , and much cheaper than most . |
| 14 | He was not seduced , although his excuse for this would have been much better than most , by the politically widespread enthusiasm for the alternative of his old friend Halifax . |
| 15 | Britain has little to fear because although there are deficiencies in our law it is much better than most . |
| 16 | The Economist Intelligence Unit concluded in its World Commodity Outlook 1989 : ‘ Short of climatic intervention — to which tea is less vulnerable than most other major crops — a continuation of the downtrend seems unavoidable : we expect London auction prices to average £1/kg , or even less , in 1989 . ’ |
| 17 | But the connection between Lloyd 's and the unemployed is much closer than most realise . |
| 18 | Our ‘ Shoestring ’ properties tend to be smaller and less grand than most of the larger resort hotels , and are an excellent choice if you 're looking for a more ‘ ethnic ’ type of holiday . |
| 19 | Gill-nets are also generally much less selective than most other fishing methods , and often catch not just marine mammals but many other non-target fish species . |
| 20 | For instance , many grasses remain much thicker than most pressed flowers , and very interesting pictures can be created with different layers and textures , perhaps only with leaves and grasses , and therefore with no need for flowers . |
| 21 | Pressure on masters and on strike-breakers was part of the structure of many disputes and , as Hobsbawm points out , no less effective than most other options open to protesting workers . |
| 22 | Isabel Lavender had always been less good than most people at losing face , since she had never learned how to compensate for it , she had never learned to wallow , to conceal partial humiliation in an expression of total defeat . |
| 23 | Nobody deserved that , and Eleanor perhaps less than most people . |
| 24 | A study conducted by Drs Anita Malhotra and Roger Thorpe , of the University of Aberdeen , not only provides a first-class example of natural selection at work , but also shows that it can occur very much faster than most people obviously imagined ( Nature , vol. 353 , pp 347–8 ) . |
| 25 | She was much older than most mothers . |
| 26 | Studio D especially , Christopher Barry remembers as being , ‘ very much smaller than most studios at Television Centre , certainly very much lower in height , which meant the lamps were down lower as well , and therefore hotter for the actors and crew . |
| 27 | Travellers and officials looked weary , and we perhaps more than most : we were in our sixth hour of confusion at the border . |
| 28 | Older people , perhaps more than most others , will often express certain feelings , such as contentment or resignation , when they do not represent their real emotions . |
| 29 | WCM readers perhaps more than most will have cherished its long-time contributor 's confident re-entry , all flowing drives and elegant poise , with the occasional nicks to remind us of his vulnerability . |
| 30 | Appalled by the Flight 103 disaster , perhaps more than most as a result of his recent experiences , but still entirely unaware of any possible connection between his Cyprus assignment and the bombing , Coleman appeared with Tom Brokaw on NBC 's ‘ Nightly News ’ without realizing that , inactive or not , he was still expected to clear such engagements first with the DIA . |