Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj -er] than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gross profit margins were lower than budget though , he said , which resulted in a ‘ less than satisfactory return on sales ’ — high sterling levels during most of 1992 and higher costs than anticipated during the early development phases of Series 3 had a negative impact , while modest sales levels to the traditionally lucrative UK corporate market meant that margins were below expectations . |
| 2 | Moreover , the bill purchases were due to a large extent to overfunding of the PSBR through sales of gilts so the Bank was effectively carrying out a maturity transformation in the market and one which , at times , entailed a " cost " ( as bill yields were lower than gilt yields ) . |
| 3 | My sister Helen , now fourteen , was attending the local grammar school , and during her holidays ( which were shorter than mine ) she was still in contact with her friends , both girls and boys . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough were happier than Charlton with a point at Upton Park . |
| 5 | If someone believed that tables were better than chairs , we would think they were talking nonsense . |
| 6 | People could not persuade voters that some policies were better than others , for this would lead to the creation of parties , representative bodies whose purpose is to dominate those who are not members . |
| 7 | ‘ He gave me much time and attention but did not allow me to waste a minute ; he left me fully free to express my feelings and thoughts but did not hesitate to present his own ; he offered me space to deliberate about choices and to make decisions but did not withhold his opinion that some choices and decisions were better than others ; he let me find my own way but did not hide the map that showed the right direction . |
| 8 | ‘ But all right , ’ he said sociably , ‘ were there days at the orphanage that were better than others ? ’ |
| 9 | And some of those well like in every other trade were better than others . |
| 10 | Some trades were better than others , " honourable " as opposed to " dishonourable " , and within some trades there were differences between a quality and a poorer end . |
| 11 | Each sortie seemed to bring some added knowledge to the art of Pathfinding although some attacks were better than others . |
| 12 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 13 | The Bay City Rollers were better than Kylie . |
| 14 | The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use . |
| 15 | Some of Laplace 's rings were thicker than others , thus attracting by gravity more of the material , to ultimately solidify into planets . |
| 16 | KOTC concluded that on their fleet of 23 vessels , repairs were cheaper than insurance and promptly cancelled their London cover for the entire fleet . |
| 17 | Donkeys were the typical animals of costermongers , and were cheaper than horses . |
| 18 | I had to tell you about the risk , but I 've done this operation on bitches who were older than Sandy , and they were all successful . ’ |
| 19 | Their bars and wire mesh were painted black and though some were smaller than others they were all designed the same . |
| 20 | The dead creatures , fished out , their fur sleek with wet , were smaller than rats . |
| 21 | The animals ' cages were smaller than Government guidelines and contained no bedding or playthings . |
| 22 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 23 | Attempts to prove that canals were safer than railways , and , ‘ a man could not live at speeds greater than 30 miles an hour ’ , were doomed to failure . |
| 24 | These were safer than petrol engines , more suitable because they could be run more slowly and could be connected directly to the propeller . |
| 25 | Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , rates of known opioid use among the youth ( 16–24-year-old ) populations were higher than S per 1,000 in 23 of Wirral 's 48 townships . |
| 27 | If dividends were higher than d in ( 6.17 ) because net investment was too low , then this would be equivalent to capital consumption and the future income-generating capacity of the share wealth would be reduced . |
| 28 | Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) . |
| 29 | The Cumbria AHA report also shows that leukaemia cases , particularly multiple myclomas , were higher than average ( see table ) . |
| 30 | Now , in Dodds v Walker [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 609 , the House of Lords , no less , decided that in calculating the period of a month or a specified number of months that had elapsed after the occurrence of a specified event such as the giving of a notice or suchlike , the general rule was that the period ended on the corresponding date in the appropriate subsequent month , irrespective of whether some months were longer than others . |