Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I do n't know how much the discount is for each game , or wether you have to go to a special members area which probably costs more than without vouchers anyway . |
| 32 | Pillar roses are in the main simply less vigorous ramblers — climbers and climbing sports are sometimes included — that normally do not reach more than about 9–10ft ( 2.7–3m ) in height or cane length . |
| 33 | This represents an increase of £188.63 per month , 39 per cent more than in May 1988 . |
| 34 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 35 | Roads toll Five people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 36 | This is because in children , even more than in adults , pathological behaviour is the outcome of an interactional process . |
| 37 | This road to promotion was even more conspicuous in Germany and the Low Countries , where the feudal hierarchy was less organized than in England , and where a king depended on his domain servants for administrative and judicial services , and military aid , far more than in England or France . |
| 38 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 39 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 40 | The Independent of Feb. 19 reported that 163 boat people had arrived in Hong Kong during January 1990 , 40 per cent more than in January 1989 . |
| 41 | Mexican debt was being sold at the end of the year for 46.6 cents on the dollar , some 30 per cent more than in January , while Argentinian debt had improved by around 70 per cent to an admittedly still poor 20 cents on the dollar . |
| 42 | In Britain and elsewhere in Europe , CDs commonly cost much more than in America . |
| 43 | Non-wage costs such as firms ' social-security payments add 20–45% , far more than in America and Japan . |
| 44 | A community can tolerate much diversity — more than in Locke 's day when religious conformity was one requirement for full citizenship — but any society has to have some common rules and policies , whether it be in matters as trivial as which side of the road we drive on or as momentous as whether there is capital punishment . |
| 45 | Francis was n't wrong , but change is regarded with suspicion , nowhere more than in football . |
| 46 | Yet there is nothing in the wording of any of these charters ( any more than in Charles 's later recollections of his mother ) to suggest special affection . |
| 47 | In this country that has been ravaged by civil war even more than by drought , security is shaky . |
| 48 | Second , never do it in type of less than about 10-point ; and even this is really too small in newspapers . |
| 49 | ‘ The differences between various digital formats are far less than between microphone placings . |
| 50 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 51 | Since the lands of the Templars in England were worth nearly £3000 annually , the reluctance of Edward II , no less than of Edward III , to surrender them needs no great explanation . |
| 52 | The visions which our ancestors saw with the mind 's eye , must be embodied for us in palpable form … all must be made palpable to sight , no less than to feeling . ’ |
| 53 | Hours of teaching practice varied between 90 and 630 , and supervision ( ignoring those who listed upwards of 100 hours ! ) was often for less than 10 hours in total — noticeably less than for English on average . |
| 54 | Although the price of a dishwasher may seem expensive , the costs of actually running the machine can work out to be far less than for washing-up by hand . |
| 55 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 56 | There is the inevitable paperwork , but this is much less than for section police although , given the antipathy to paperwork in all police forces , it is surprising how the neighbourhood men welcome it on cold , wintry mornings . |
| 57 | Decimal point in real constants ; abbreviation symbol on keyword entry ; introduce label in assembler. < Relation of less than on integers , reals and strings . |
| 58 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 59 | Oh no , you 'll probably going up by less than on average less than one child per class , but the trend is going the wrong way . |
| 60 | Up to of soil per year were lost from these plots , which compares with less than per year from undisturbed forest . |