Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 2 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 3 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 4 | While this is admittedly still a lengthy period , it is significantly quicker than under the ordinary procedure . |
| 5 | On the south side of the structure the concrete was cleaner than to the north , where it was discoloured with moss . |
| 6 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 7 | With the second set of options ( long repayment period = low APR ) , the average repayment period chosen was if anything shorter than with the first ( short repayment period = low APR ) . |
| 8 | Measurements of the HI and CO lines enable one to infer for each point on the sky the column density of HI and H 2 moving with a given velocity , but the inferred H 2 column densities are cruder because of the extra interpretive step required . |
| 9 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 10 | His mother was obviously surprised , for he rarely went out , moving no farther than to the chair in front of the television set . |
| 11 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 12 | The term y must be positive , and so the no-arbitrage price for futures on a geometric index is lower than for the corresponding arithmetic index . |
| 13 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 14 | Mike Ross , Widows ' managing director , said : ‘ Despite a good 1992 , nominal investment returns during the 1990s continue to be considerably lower than for the 1980s . |
| 15 | Bridget reported that the numbers for the Easter Course were much lower than at the previous courses held at Avery Hill . |
| 16 | The number densities of craters on the maria are far lower than on the highlands , indicating , as outlined in section 3.3.4 , that the maria surfaces are younger . |
| 17 | Here items in short supply are sold at inflated prices — but still generally lower than on the black market . |
| 18 | Second , when the discount houses want to " test the water " for an interest rate cut , they might offer paper ½%; lower than on the previous day at the first opportunity ( that is , at 9.45 a.m. or midday ) . |
| 19 | But generally the level of violence in Cambodia during the election was lower than during the campaign . |
| 20 | Whilst the poll tax in Kensington was set some 48% above government estimates , Institute of Public Finance figures suggest that average household bills would be a quarter lower than under the rates . |
| 21 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 22 | The trouble was that their general educational standard was much lower than in the past . |
| 23 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 24 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 25 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 26 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 27 | Prices in Greece and Portugal are also up to 40 per cent lower than in the rest of Europe . |
| 28 | The general standards of safety , hygiene , fire precautions etc will generally be lower than in the UK . |
| 29 | As a result , the breccia fragments are surrounded by a mud matrix and rocks are only of marginal reservoir quality with porosities and permeabilities that are much lower than in the collapse breccias of Auk and Argyll . |
| 30 | Income tax there has been 30 per cent lower than in the old , western Länder , corporation tax 22.5 per cent lower , turnover tax 30 per cent lower . |