Example sentences of "[prep] the world than " in BNC.
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| 1 | For fourteen or fifteen years no man could have been less conscious of himself and of his own life , less informed about the world than Antoine Bloye . |
| 2 | The enterprise which had begun to take off in Napoleonic Paris had undoubtedly made enormous progress ; far more was known about the world than had been a generation or two earlier . |
| 3 | We did live in a state , where there were others knew more about the world than we did , and could make sense of it for us . |
| 4 | Dyson , besides , though unpublished and ‘ a don at Reading ’ ( as he always half-ironically described himself ) rather than at Oxford , was more a man of the world than either Tolkien or Lewis . |
| 5 | These are habits that must now be reworked to meet threats that are vaguer , more elusive and spread across more of the world than precisely identified units of the Soviet army . |
| 6 | The nerves of ‘ Kanga ’ Tryon , a designer more used to working with ‘ supermodels ’ on the catwalks of the world than schoolgirls — were fraying faster than an unfinished hem . |
| 7 | William Titford 's elder and younger brothers were each well-travelled in their own ways : Benjamin James had settled in Somerset soon after his brief spell in Cheltenham , and Charles Frederick was to see more of the world than almost any Titford before or since . |
| 8 | The third was that the costs of failure in Russia — from civil strife within its borders , up to and including a new international arms race — would be far greater to the rest of the world than the costs of economic failure in , say , Zaire . |
| 9 | It 's much easier to get through to the other side of the world than to the other side of London , and the lines are much clearer too . |
| 10 | My own company operates in more than seventy countries , and we employ more people in other parts of the world than we do in our homeland , the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | In an interview which he gave in this year , the reporter noted how he seemed much " heartier , more unworried and more unafraid of the world than he did … five years ago " . |
| 12 | As the weeks progressed , the only thing which troubled her was that her new friends had seen so much more of the world than she had . |
| 13 | the schizophrenic will clearly have a far more intense experience of any given present of the world than we do , since our own present is always part of some larger set of projects which force us selectively to focus our perceptions . |
| 14 | It is more likely that the eventual , inevitable success of HDTV will owe more to the power of huge marketing campaigns which will soon be waged throughout the world than to any urgent need among consumers . |
| 15 | Like many sons , Prince Charles was in awe of his father , a man of handsome mien who seemed more naturally at ease with the world than he would ever be . |
| 16 | Those people always get on better in the world than decent men . ’ |
| 17 | Without the slightest doubt , there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals . |
| 18 | Within two years the volume of travel was higher practically everywhere in the world than it had been before the war . |
| 19 | ‘ We all know there 's no more sorry sight in the world than a lady who 's had a drop too much , but a spoonful or so can be highly medicinal . |
| 20 | THERE are few firmer friendships in cricket anywhere in the world than that between John Emburey and Graham Gooch . |
| 21 | SCOTT GIBBS believes there is no better centre pairing in the world than Tim Horan and Jason Little , and Horan tops the lot in the individual stakes . |
| 22 | A first-class honours degree from a college of higher education still counts for less in the world than a third-class degree from Oxbridge , and even less than a sporting ‘ blue ’ from the ancient universities . |
| 23 | Statistics show that there are more women in the world than anything , except insects . |
| 24 | There are now more malnourished , sick , uneducated and unemployed people in the world than there were 10 years ago . ’ |
| 25 | Yet it remains important to take on board the intentions behind that approach : the global vision , the search for harmony , and the emphasis upon fairness to all religions , has never more been needed in the world than today . |
| 26 | God is not to be identified with what we have called a part of the world 's furniture : God is no more an object inside the world than an object outside it . |
| 27 | They must not be forgotten for they gave their lives in defence of values which are under more bitter attack now all over the world than ever before . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ This man is of no more use to the world than those artists who came to fawn on me and scrape a little importance for themselves . |
| 29 | In addition , nuclear power is potentially far more dangerous to the world than any activity in a colliery . |
| 30 | The attitude of the New England colonies was probably well suited to the commercial and industrial society that was emerging in the seventeenth century , but at the time they made less impression on the world than the others . |