Example sentences of "[noun pl] well [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lasers run at 300 dots per inch , about four times better than a matrix printer . |
| 2 | The result is that ‘ a listed Church of England church has a chance of avoiding demolition nearly three times better than a listed secular building ’ . |
| 3 | It does over 2,000 input-output operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says ; it costs $170,000 with 28.8Gb disk . |
| 4 | Intel Corp is saying its revamped Pentium floating point unit operates three to 10 times better than the one in the 80486's , apparently positioning it against RISCs like the MIPS Technologies Inc R4000 . |
| 5 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 6 | It does over 2,000 input operations per second , three to five times better than the average Unix server , IBM says . |
| 7 | Anyway , these curtains were a thousand times better than the ones off the skips ; lovely , real linen or silk or thick velvet , lined and interlined , fringed and tasselled . |
| 8 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 9 | This can then be searched over a Local Area Network by up to 25 users simultaneously , a speed performance ten times better than the best CD-ROM can normally offer . |
| 10 | MERSEYSIDE 'S battle against car crime reaped rewards last night when the region revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Merseyside revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 12 | three or four times better than the civilian 's |
| 13 | The distribution has been examined principally within the context of wind blown dune sands ( Bagnold & Barndorff-Nielsen , 1980 ; Christiansen , 1984 ) for which it was claimed the hyperbolic function encompassed the extreme values of the size distribution tails better than the log-normal plot . |
| 14 | And they 've performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 15 | And this has really been justified recently in the ‘ O ’ level results of pupils who have now been through the mixed ability system and finished their ‘ O ’ levels in the school , and they performed well — in some areas better than the streamed pupils did previously . |
| 16 | And that , by and large , is what tests have done , enabling millions of people from poor or deprived backgrounds to develop their abilities better than the circumstances of birth would otherwise have allowed . |
| 17 | This may suit your needs better than a permanent move . |
| 18 | Yet it is in this dangerous arrogance , that the politician can know a person 's needs better than the person himself , that the seeds of bureaucratic authoritarianism lie . |
| 19 | buying for cash , and ( maybe with some complication or difficulty ) arranging credit would meet consumers ' needs better than the ‘ new ’ choice between not buying , buying for cash . |
| 20 | ‘ In Europe we tend to hit our irons better than the average American but we tend to lose shots around the greens . |
| 21 | Amateurs adapted to the muddy conditions better than the visitors and dominated the game from the start . |
| 22 | I like the earlier stories better than the recent ones . |
| 23 | And yet this creature who so violates the natural order and traditional gender divisions by dressing as a man also does things better than a man : ‘ I should draw first and prove the quicker man ’ , she says ( iv . |
| 24 | There are few things better than the reluctant black smile : worth a hundred dollars . |
| 25 | It is a worrying time for the Cupertino company , but it probably can come through more or less unscathed , simply because people buy Apple kit not for the underlying technology but for what 's on top of it , so provided a happy marriage can be arranged between the PowerPC hardware and Apple 's software , and the thing ends up looking to the user like a Macintosh that is simply faster , more powerful , more easy to use and in all ways better than the 68040-based models , Apple should be able to scrape through — and there is still a Motorola Inc 68060 in the pipeline that Apple can fall back on if everything in the IBM relationship goes awry . |
| 26 | If this looks likely , you have to be absolutely certain they 're going to achieve your objectives better than a human being ! |
| 27 | Though not a Scripture scholar in the strict sense , he knew the Pauline Epistles well and a selection of his lectures on St Paul from the 1930s were published after his death ( Colloqui Religiosi , Brescia , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | In spite of Strathclyde 's size , covering half of Scotland and serving 2.3 million people , Mr McNulty said local committees would guarantee accountability and reflect local loyalties better than the council structure proposed by the Scottish Office . |
| 29 | His brilliant shot-making erased the Hope Classic record by four strokes and his total was also four shots better than the US Tour record for bettering par . |
| 30 | Even man understands his fellow humans better than the language of the animals and other creatures . |