Example sentences of "[adj] than usual [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some occasions , the lower than usual level of water at LW springs could actually be seen . |
| 2 | This , together with the addition of six big new unnamed customers and a lower than usual number of client losses , led to an 11% rise in turnover to £4.5m from the bureau and facilities management services division . |
| 3 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 4 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |
| 5 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 6 | Yet they moved with more than usual purpose towards the hills ; and it was always a possibility , however remote , that some vagabond poacher or time-expired soldier living wild had hit upon Owen 's outposts without being detected , and thought it worth his while to carry a tale to Ruthyn . |
| 7 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 8 | In the process , it regularly encounters regions where space contains a more than usual amount of matter in the form of gas , dust and other debris . |
| 9 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 10 | The only other significant documented difference in the cash flow is a smaller than usual increase in the amount allowed for the imputed earnings of family labour , which rose by £1m to £56m . |
| 11 | A thumbnail sketch of the average councillor would present him as white , male , middle-aged , middle-class , and with a higher than usual level of education . |
| 12 | The Gold Cup has had a greater than usual bearing in the Grand National build-up this year , with Cool Ground , the winner , and Docklands Express , the close third , renewing rivalry . |
| 13 | Perhaps more important , the Earth would be subjected to a greater than usual bombardment of material from space . |
| 14 | This occurred as a result of greater than usual bribery in the election of 1754 . |