Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maritime antarctic as a whole has 20% more lichens than the continent and 150% more mosses ; in addition it has 25 taxa of hepatics to the continent 's one , and two species of angiosperms that have not yet been found on the continent . |
| 2 | Tai chi has far fewer styles than the hand system of kung fu , only a handful in fact . |
| 3 | Important as it is to recognise that the notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical , not much purpose seems to be served by struggling to define more precisely such elusive matters as emotional interactions . |
| 4 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 5 | Although he may receive more help in the first few months than the widow usually does , he may find that his sudden change in life-style is a considerable shock . |
| 6 | He 'd sold his own car for cash in Carlisle , and he had more important uses for his funds than a guest-house bed . |
| 7 | For the elderly , the history of welfare provision seems to have been less a story of steady progress over the centuries than an oscillation between phases of relative generosity and meanness . |
| 8 | GP fund holders placed contracts for more MRI sessions than the district health authority … so their patients have a better chance of being seen quickly … in about three weeks instead of about four months.But hospital managers deny that means two types of care … |
| 9 | Come to that , she had much better legs than a man of Gav 's mental age deserved . |
| 10 | I glanced over , thinking that she had much better legs than a woman of her age deserved . |
| 11 | There is a remarkable cycle on Gilles Binchois ' ballade ‘ Deuil angoisseux ’ , in which material from all voices of the song informs other voices than the tenor alone . |
| 12 | The squid has many fewer tentacles than the nautilus — only ten — and the octopus , as its name makes obvious , has only eight . |
| 13 | A group of 114 Irish patients with primary adenocarcinoma of the large bowel had significantly lower serum cholesterol concentrations than an age and sex matched group drawn from the general population . |
| 14 | And yet , many will draw some sour satisfaction from the fact that the stockbroking trade , with its air of effortless mystique and superiority , is clearly no better at computers than the rest of us . |
| 15 | It will cost more to repair the burnt valve seats and valves than the saving on fuel . |
| 16 | In pursuit of land reform , in a country without large inequalities in ownership , party militants shot any old man they could find who had a few more acres than the rest , or whose social position , as arbiter of disputes , set him apart from others . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is often the ability of management to agree the deal with much less protection in the way of warranties than a trade purchaser would accept that helps management to win the deal from the vendor . |
| 18 | It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties . |
| 19 | Nothing better illustrates the social balance in the party and the fierce independence of the local parties than the argument about the selection of working-class candidates . |
| 20 | ‘ Sweeter it is to my ears than the mewing of gulls ’ , she said . ’ |
| 21 | Secondly , the emphasis on user and carer perspectives on each dimension may lead to more participatory methods than the question and answer interview which symbolizes the professional 's relative power and authority . |
| 22 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 23 | As a Scottish paper remarked at the time , it was not his first dismissal , ‘ Bremner has had more early baths than a miner on night-shift . ’ |
| 24 | There were few things more calculated to endear a prince to his subjects than a display of stern retribution on unjust officials . |
| 25 | He became ‘ more loathsome in my own eyes than a toad … . |
| 26 | His Lordship will need to assess whether the nudity involved in the depiction of this is more corrupting to young eyes than the safety of the encounter is exemplary . |
| 27 | It is a truism that the executive search consultant hired has a stronger influence on the person eventually put on the short list of candidates than the client . |
| 28 | They created more scoring opportunities than the average away team and they were not exactly negligent in defence . |
| 29 | Some democratic elite theorists have argued that a much wider group of elected political leaders play political or policy direction roles than the power elite conception implies . |
| 30 | Yet there is far more to the martial arts than the aggression of karate . |