Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior , although fairly basic in its design , is roomy and much better screwed together than a few years ago . |
| 2 | They comment on the Mayoress of Winchelsea 's excellent punch , ‘ each bowl better than the former one ’ , and at Dr Fuller 's in Sevenoaks they enjoyed ‘ venison pasty , plus the strongest drink in the country ’ . |
| 3 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 4 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |
| 5 | Ageing has to be recognized as a process , a gradual transition , rather than a once-for-all event . |
| 6 | Annual reviews of authorities similarly cover a large number of issues ( 15 plus ) rather than a few , ‘ bottom line ’ , indicators of performance . |
| 7 | Apple 's Macintosh coupled with the new generation of page printers made the process possible at a cost within the reach of tens of thousands of individuals rather than a few hundreds . |
| 8 | While the breakdown of a corporate group into separate SBUs will improve diversification of the total group risk , if there is some interdependence between the SBUs it may be better to have many smaller interdependencies rather than a few large ones . |
| 9 | " Readers ' , in this case , usually means large population-samples of " ordinary people " , rather than a few professional readers ( critics , reviewers , literary academics , professors and the like ) . |
| 10 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 11 | I am afraid it is the latter rather than the former . |
| 12 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 13 | By choosing the latter rather than the former an applicant might be able to avoid the restrictive features of AJR procedure . |
| 14 | I I I 'm well I 'm not entirely familiar with such jargon , I think it falls within the latter rather than the former definition . |
| 15 | Following one stimulus rather than another with food , for example , is likely to establish associations that will cause the subject to approach the former stimulus rather than the latter when both are available . |
| 16 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 17 | I believe it is the former rather than the latter . |
| 18 | In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’ |
| 19 | The former rather than the latter could have been true of Brihtheah of Worcester , whose family was that of Archbishop Wulfstan of York and Worcester , but whose kins-men lived in Berkshire , while if Symeon of Durham 's account of the election of Bishop Edmund is correct , Cnut simply confirmed a choice made in Durham . |
| 20 | He says that ‘ when the dictionary , the grammar and the style book seem to rule okay , we find the language of the street , of the bar , of the market-place , of the many rather than the few , striking back and changing our own , educated perceptions of what English really is . ’ |
| 21 | The approaching waves still have colinear polarization but , in this case , their amplitudes are opposite rather than the same . |
| 22 | Because there were fewer volosti than communes , the former could be pressurized more easily than the latter . |
| 23 | No-one stayed longer than a few weeks . |
| 24 | This exchange of ideas during the class in no way impeded the work of the children , as these conversations never lasted longer than a few minutes and even if two children spoke together they continued their work . |
| 25 | Where " events " last longer than a few hours or one day , the need for order in the relationship is increased . |
| 26 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 27 | It is probably true to say that if young British-born Caribbeans from London have a conversation lasting longer than a few turns , then it will contain London English even if it contains Creole as well . |
| 28 | Both were unbalanced , but the former reached breaking point sooner than the latter . |
| 29 | The shift in the labour pattern significantly reduced the tensions between the European and non-European and largely unskilled Jewish elements in Israel which during the 1960s was becoming a serious social and political issue since the latter grew faster demographically than the former . |
| 30 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |