Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] so than " in BNC.
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| 1 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 2 | He was as Romantic as any man of his time , and more so than most ; one ideally suited to Leonard 's own deeply Romantic ( and romantic ) strains — imagists both , rather than surrealists . |
| 3 | I find everything realized and more so than was stated . |
| 4 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 5 | But less so than before . |
| 6 | The amount of tar in cigarettes is also important but less so than the number smoked or duration of smoking . |
| 7 | Calls a babble of ‘ kow-yow ’ and ‘ kow-lyow ’ sounds , like distant cries of beagle pack ; higher-pitched than Greylag but less so than Pink-foot . |
| 8 | Flight appreciably heavier than a gull but less so than a buzzard , and remarkably agile when chasing other birds ; will pursue even Gannets . |
| 9 | Flight more graceful than Herring but less so than Black-headed . |
| 10 | In the transmission of ability , we assume that there is ‘ regression towards the mean ’ : children of above-average parents have abilities that are above average , but less so than their parents . |
| 11 | And her pleasure was mixed with fear — but less so than she had expected . |
| 12 | Though residents find little change in the quality of living under these arrangements , they are generally pleased with the traffic calming that has resulted , though less so than those who live in the streets that have been completely rebuilt . |
| 13 | To some extent , though less so than with survey researchers , the same spirit informed the early exponents of participant observation . |