Example sentences of "[adv] than a [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 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ageing has to be recognized as a process , a gradual transition , rather than a once-for-all event . |
| 5 | Annual reviews of authorities similarly cover a large number of issues ( 15 plus ) rather than a few , ‘ bottom line ’ , indicators of performance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No-one stayed longer than a few weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Where " events " last longer than a few hours or one day , the need for order in the relationship is increased . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |
| 16 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 17 | It is a long list , but the SPSSX stepwise procedure seldom selected more than a few predictors as having a significant influence upon perceptions . |
| 18 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 19 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 20 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 21 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 22 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 23 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 24 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 25 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 26 | While long-standing fans either relished it or waited patiently for them to return to straightforward indie pop , more than a few older folk fans switched on the enigma of The Wedding Present . |
| 27 | One obvious problem , with implications for any GIS input , is that the effects are highly localized , with little measurable field effect more than a few dozen metres away from the route centre-lines . |
| 28 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 29 | Two rules must be obeyed when exploiting them : local cooling , close to the heat pump or its heat exchanger , must be no faster than heat can flow in from the surroundings ; and the source temperature must not be lowered more than a few degrees below its undisturbed level . |
| 30 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |