Example sentences of "[is] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calorie-wise , all fresh fruit is lower than both dried and tinned . |
| 2 | This is lower than both types of silicon-based cell , but the thin-film cell is much cheaper to make . |
| 3 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 4 | Whilst this is an increase over the 1991 level of 41,000 boepd , it is lower than originally anticipated due to the delay in the commencement of production from Piper and lower production from Ninian as a result of the deferral of well workovers from 1992 to 1993 . |
| 5 | ‘ The business of ‘ fitness ’ and ‘ good health ’ is healthier than ever ’ so says the advertising copy for the National Exhibition of Health & Leisure being staged at the Barbican Centre from 9–12th October . |
| 6 | Never was that more so than at this moment when English is nearer than ever before to becoming a universally known language … |
| 7 | AMAZING STORIES is dafter than ever tonight , being about aliens . |
| 8 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 9 | Organisers of the 1994 World Cup finals admit they face an uphill battle in winning the support of US television viewers for a sporting event that to the rest of the world is bigger than even the Olympics . |
| 10 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 11 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 12 | It is bigger than ever this year . |
| 13 | Traffic 's heavier than ever . |
| 14 | The vast Pacific has become smaller , but the future of those who live around it is larger than ever before . |
| 15 | These increases resulted from three major factors : the cuts imposed on the university student population and the resulting competition for places in public sector institutions , the difficulty which eighteen-year-olds are experiencing in finding jobs which leads them instead to enter full-time higher education , and the fact that the eighteen-year-old population is larger than ever . |
| 16 | None is later than about AD 100 , after which the fashion seems to have been supplanted by the taste for a Greek appearance . |
| 17 | If the statute is later than about 1968 it will be found in the Continuation Volumes , which are all indexed in the latest Cumulative Supplement . |
| 18 | 66 ) , i.e. a type C arrangement , is later than c. 320 ( it is more likely to be of the later decade of the third century ) . |
| 19 | it 's better than fucking better be being late than not being there at all . |
| 20 | Does n't look very professional but I suppose it 's better than not telling them |
| 21 | Well , it 's better than just sitting in watching Moira Anderson yowling Caw The Yowes on the television . |
| 22 | I try to think of something I can say that 's better than just I 'm sorry , but my brain has dried up . |
| 23 | Now 32 , Christie is convinced that he 's better than ever . |
| 24 | Nigel Mansell says that things are changing and he 's better than ever and he would like to give it another shot … |
| 25 | A volunteer 's better than any than a pressed man is n't it ? |
| 26 | I think it 's better than too short anyway . |
| 27 | Oh I see , yes , oh that 's better than really |
| 28 | ‘ Coming down here and talking to people is better than just looking at boards in a Jobcentre , ’ he said . |
| 29 | And though most people hold that working in any kind of job is better than not working , it is equally important , and not just for individuals but for society as a whole , that children should be educated so that they can find satisfaction outside their work as well as within it , in things other than paid work . |
| 30 | Still , too much detail is better than not enough , and the experienced user probably wo n't read a fat lot of the manual anyway . |