Example sentences of "[det] than [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just want to play regular football and I do n't think there 's a better place to do that than at Goodison . ’ |
| 2 | During the month , staff in careers offices helped 34 young people into employment , fewer than in February when 53 youngsters were placed . |
| 3 | Hampshire employers notified county careers offices of 117 job vacancies for young people in the month to March 12th , more than in the previous month when 105 jobs were offered but fewer than in March last year when there were 166 vacancies for young people . |
| 4 | At a party congress of the DBP on Jan. 27 delegates representing 117,000 members ( 7,000 fewer than in October 1989 ) approved an electoral programme which included continued support for co-operative and state ownership of farms . |
| 5 | Even though shorn of the banker that was Craig Chalmers , it matches the size of the Scotland representation in New Zealand in 1983 though one fewer than in Australia in 1989 . |
| 6 | The number of strips held by households were larger and fewer than around Kursk , but distances between houses and plots were even larger , since peasants lived alongside the water-courses away from their land . |
| 7 | It was achieved off only 33 balls , two more than at Sabina Park . |
| 8 | Nearly 7,000 different parts flood into Dagenham for assembly of the Sierra and Fiesta — 50 per cent more than at Halewood or Saarlouis . |
| 9 | Cocoa for delivery that month traded at a premium of £36 a tonne to March , the next contract month , about £10 a tonne more than on Friday . |
| 10 | There is no simple answer with Dostoevsky any more than with Dickens . |
| 11 | This represents an increase of £188.63 per month , 39 per cent more than in May 1988 . |
| 12 | FIVE people died on the roads of North Wales last month , two more than in May last year , Chief Constable David Owen has announced . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was just over 50 per cent above February 1990 , and five per cent more than in January . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In Britain and elsewhere in Europe , CDs commonly cost much more than in America . |
| 20 | Non-wage costs such as firms ' social-security payments add 20–45% , far more than in America and Japan . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Only too true , reflected Cadfael , for she may well have some strictures to level at us , no less than at Ramsey . |
| 25 | A harsh restructuring of basic industries , particularly steel and shipbuilding , took place under the Socialists ' rule , although it relied less than in Britain on the power of the ‘ market ’ and more on the intervention of the state . |
| 26 | The Inland Revenue took in £4,684 million last month , almost 5 per cent less than in February 1992 . |
| 27 | As my own research shows , local purchases in the export-oriented zones in Egypt , Mexico and China are very much less than in Ireland , perhaps in the region of 1 or 2 per cent ( Sklair , 1988c , 1989 , pp.197–202 , forthcoming ) . |
| 28 | RENFE workers ' overtime levels have also been high , though somewhat less than in BR where overtime and shift earnings are virtually the only way of supplementing basic pay . |
| 29 | There are more courts sitting so the backlog is less than in Leicester , but youth justice manager Rick Amos says the joint probation and social services team is ‘ extremely busy ’ . |
| 30 | It is sometimes implied that all this changed when that shrewd lawyer , John XXII , became pope , yet he readily promoted a number of Edward 's episcopal candidates ; moreover , from John , no less than from Clement , Edward II received the bounty of papal taxation of the clergy . |