Example sentences of "[adj] than the average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 2 | Running 26.2 miles is further than the average person achieves in a lifetime and you 've done it in around four hours or less writes . |
| 3 | ‘ They have to be tougher than the average kid , I do n't like losers , but once they 're into boxing it takes them off the streets , away from the drugs and alcohol , ’ said Lol , 57 . |
| 4 | The taller of the pair was chewing on a chicken leg and leaning on a sword that was only marginally shorter than the average man . |
| 5 | This protection is paid for by chargepayers in areas which would otherwise have charges lower than the average rate bill per adult . |
| 6 | All pipes connections are concealed within the length to give a neat appearance , and the surface temperature is much lower than the average radiator , so it is safe to touch and needs no bulky enclosures . |
| 7 | I had always suspected him of being rather more solid than the average person and this collision provided complete confirmation . |
| 8 | There are people out there who 've got problems that are bigger than the average household can deal with and erm I think , therefore , we 're looking for more institutionalized forms of help and folks like this particular character — I almost said his name — almost need to be made to accept that kind of help . |
| 9 | These regions , known as tribal agencies , are where Afghan and Pakistani opium is made into heroin , often in laboratories no bigger than the average bathroom . |
| 10 | They come from a brewery not much bigger than the average garden shed.And , as Clare Lafferty reports , the head brewer is also the pub landlord . |
| 11 | In Brightman v Johnson ( 1985 ) The Times , 17 December an award made in December 1985 , Tudor Price J increased this figure to £95,000 to take account of the circumstances which made the plaintiff 's injuries more serious than the average case of tetraplegia ( see Report in para A2-001 of Vol 2 of Kemp & Kemp ) . |
| 12 | The instrument panel and avionics fit were much more comprehensive than the average trainer , with ADF , RNav , Decca , and HSI and even a radio altimeter . |
| 13 | He was standing aloof , black-haired , broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped , taller than the average Italian , an air of contained , but absolute authority setting him apart from the noisy , gesticulating mob . |
| 14 | When you reach the Squirrel League , the fit of the instrument panel starts to become more sophisticated than the average single . |
| 15 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 16 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher |
| 17 | He was a huge dog , much larger than the average collie . |
| 18 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 19 | Thus when , i.e. the polymer chain is larger than the average hole size , the viscosity will be correspondingly high , whereas when , the viscosity will be low . |
| 20 | As such , they are less sluggish than the average band . |
| 21 | So the average unemployed person is likely to be less healthy than the average employee . |
| 22 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 23 | Because New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives , shows would close for a couple of months when the Girls would be sent home for a holiday on half pay , which was better than the average salary in Britain . |
| 24 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 25 | Close-fitted carpet on a well-lit passageway suggested the occupants were more affluent than the average student could be expected to be , unless of course he made a living from the less commendable pursuits some students were reputed to follow ! |
| 26 | She used her face and hands much more than the average Englishman , though perhaps not more than the average Italian . |
| 27 | My attitude is that somebody has to do the job and if I get bumped off , I have experienced much more than the average bloke . |
| 28 | And it 's preferable to have a golf course rather than agricultural land which might be heavily dosed with chemicals six times a year , which is more than the average course . ’ |
| 29 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |
| 30 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |