Example sentences of "[adj -er] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This version is lighter than a traditional Christmas pudding but it has all the flavour . |
| 2 | Psychological empowerment is broader than a pure intrapsychic variable because it measures individual change within one 's social setting , such as one 's belief in one 's ability to act for community change , and one 's belief in the value of group action ( Chavis and Wandersman , 1990 ; Zimmerman , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 4 | The surgeons had to join blood vessels of only two millimetres in diameter and use suturing materials no broader than a human hair . |
| 5 | In some ways a reaching start is easier than a beating one , but there are still pitfalls for the unwary . |
| 6 | A physical description was easier than an emotional assessment . |
| 7 | Polymers do not form perfectly elastic solids , as a limited amount of bond rotation can occur in the glass which allows slight plastic deformation ; this makes them somewhat tougher than an inorganic glass . |
| 8 | The ceremony is much shorter than a religious one so many people like to hold a service of blessing afterwards . |
| 9 | The highest infant mortality was reported in those cases where the preceding birth interval was less than two years and , in many communities , especially high , if the inter-birth period was shorter than a full year . |
| 10 | Most modern nutritionists would advise that , in our sedentary society at least , a low-meat diet is considerably healthier than a high-meat diet . |
| 11 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 12 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
| 13 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 14 | Long clones such as yeast artificial chromosomes — YACs ( 6 ) and P1s ( 7 ) will require fewer hybridisations than cosmid clones to link them , but the resulting map will be coarser than a cosmid map would be . |
| 15 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |
| 16 | The objects and phenomena that a physics book describes are simpler than a single cell in the body of its author . |
| 17 | I dare say I 've been luckier than a good many . |
| 18 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
| 19 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 20 | The girl who picked Pascoe up was a tall redhead in a glove-leather halter top and a skirt no bigger than a broad belt . |
| 21 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 22 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 23 | Judit 's cassette-filled bedroom is no bigger than a standard bathroom . |
| 24 | It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall with a sink under the window , but there were no taps over the sink . |
| 25 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 26 | Only 1,860cc , it produces — on a good day — all of 38 hp , swings a prop only marginally bigger than a self-important toothpick , and makes the most incredible racket whilst it 's running . |
| 27 | Only the top surface of the upper chord of the rear stabiliser spar is readily visible and the crack when it was shown to me looked no bigger than a human hair lying across its width , partially hidden by paint and the dirt of many years ' service . |
| 28 | They may believe that a smaller share of a larger cake is absolutely bigger than a larger share of a smaller cake . |
| 29 | Pointy-Beard was trying to stand and loosen the knot ( by now probably no bigger than a square centimetre ) in his tie . |
| 30 | Beneath this lay sixty to a hundred communion wafers , each no bigger than a ten pence piece , each with four small Xs crossed by vertical letter Ps embossed on the surface . |