Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this deprivation , and despite the fact that the difference in their age was only a year , he survived the early and mid-1930s much better than did MacDonald . |
| 2 | Happily attempts are being made to change the colts qualifying date to September 1st from 1993 onwards rather than the anomalous January 1st which has for years disrupted team building by splitting units established over the years on the September date . |
| 3 | " At the beginning of 1881 no less than 84.7 per cent of former serfs had become owners of their allotments " . |
| 4 | As on 16 April , we shall be voting at 7 o'clock , but this time it will be 7 pm rather than 7 am . |
| 5 | By 1826 no less than ten newspaper presses were using Applegath & Cowper printing machines . |
| 6 | Between 936 and 1531 no less than thirty-two kings and emperors were crowned in Aachen . |
| 7 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |
| 8 | There are still roughly the same amount of people who do get drunk and create a problem , but we are now dealing with the street offences they cause at two or three o'clock rather than ten till midnight . ’ |
| 9 | This was a portent of future events , and for the Coronation of 1902 no less than twenty-five trams were decorated ( see p. 38 ) , illuminations being added in the evening while the cars were in service . |
| 10 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 11 | I think that the hon. Member for Huddersfield ( Mr. Sheerman ) is as pleased as I that the debate started at 7.15 pm rather than at 4.15 am . |
| 12 | Something like ooh nine out of ten maybe more than that perhaps ninety five out of every hundred words that you write down are okay they 're spelt correctly it 's just the awkward ones . |
| 13 | During 1845 no less than £45 : 0s. : 0d. was spent on slating and floor flagging at the Forge Cottages , which suggests the ground floors might originally have been earth — common enough . |
| 14 | The jails were filled and the press muzzled : between April and December 1930 no less than ten ordinances were issued to meet the emergency — the greatest such number that any viceroy had ever promulgated . |
| 15 | Similar courses were provided for Hoffman Manufacturing Company , Chelmsford , from spring 1957 and for English Electric at Stevenage from autumn 1958 ; by the end of 1961 no less than eight firms were on the list , among them De Havilland , Imperial Chemical Industries and International Computers and Tabulators . |
| 16 | Of the eleven families who had more than one member holding land in 1575 no less than nine were still in the village in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | There are however none to my knowledge that combine the two more successfully than the CD3 , nor which sound more convincingly at home with a wide range of music . |
| 18 | I would n't trust those two any further than I can throw them . |
| 19 | ‘ … on a piece of ground 3 feet long and 2 feet wide , dug and cleared , and where there could be no choking from other plants , I marked all the seedlings of our native weeds as they came up , and out of 357 no less than 295 were destroyed , chiefly by slugs and insects . |
| 20 | Between 1846 and 1875 considerably more than 9 million people left Europe , by far the greater part of these for the United States . |
| 21 | 2.30 More often than not the loss of the wife 's services is assessed by reference to the costs of employing a housekeeper to provide those services , and there have been comparatively recent developments in this area . |
| 22 | In 1988 slightly more than 82 per cent of employed women worked in service industries as compared with 57.5 per cent of employed men . |
| 23 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |