Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the worst they were little better off than the best paid sections of the working class and at the best they were able to afford a distinctively different education for their children and adopt a lifestyle which aped their financial betters . |
| 2 | But these laws are intended to prevent men from such ‘ wastage ’ of seed , and thus define men much less intrinsically than the blood taboos define women qua women as unclean . |
| 3 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 4 | They became strong and agile swimmers , still vulnerable to attack but much less so than the invertebrates . |
| 5 | Even the ticking-over rate of about 10 pulses per second is probably quite costly , but much less so than the maximum rate of 200 per second . |
| 6 | Consistent with this , the homologous Vmw175 DNA binding domain , and also intact Vmw175 , recognize the gene 62 binding sites much less efficiently than the 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 7 | They had appeared together , Ken and he , in an early BBC TV show hosted by Gilbert Harding , but the first time they really worked together was on Beyond Our Ken , a show that he remembers somewhat less affectionately than the later Round The Horne . |
| 8 | The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left . |
| 9 | B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat . |
| 10 | ‘ Manchester United offered me a contract that was only just better than the one I was on at Ayresome Park . |
| 11 | It is clear both from Scripture and in the long experience of the Church , that some Christians can do this much more effectively than the majority . |
| 12 | Foreign ministers and foreign offices , an administrative apparatus exclusively or at least mainly concerned with the formulation and carrying-out of foreign policy , developed much more slowly than the diplomats whom they were to control . |
| 13 | As the next chapter shows , the subsequent oil price rises were also to hit Germany and Japan much more heavily than the United States . |
| 14 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 15 | These were an improvement during dry weather conditions since the metal penetrated the ground much more easily than the wood , but there were disadvantages too . |
| 16 | The plaintiff as an individual will feel the pressures much more keenly than the defendant , backed by the insurance company . |
| 17 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
| 18 | The DNA of retroviruses is integrated much more readily than the DNA of other viruses , but the mechanism of both forms of integration in animal and plant cells is still poorly understood . |
| 19 | In New York , the visitor is drawn time and time again to the Frick Collection , where the opulent yet relaxed setting shows off the objects so much more sympathetically than the Disneyland-style ‘ period rooms ’ across the other side of Fifth Avenue . |
| 20 | But retired or sacked , it as a tumultuous time in a county cricketer 's life , much more so than the leavings of September , for then players were tired of it all and ready enough to depart . |
| 21 | The sense of betrayal and the risk of danger only served to intensify the experience , much more so than the most potent of drugs . |
| 22 | How much more so than the enigmas of her books ! |
| 23 | Much more so than the place she had visited in London , which had been dark and smelled of incense . |
| 24 | Synthetic bags maintain their insulation even when wet and they dry out much more quickly than the down bags . |
| 25 | THe local area network business is growing much more quickly than the PC industry as a whole . |
| 26 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 27 | The newest waste disposers can handle up to I litre ( 2 pints ) of waste food at a time very much more quickly than the old bone-chilling ( and bone-crunching ) models . |
| 28 | It turns out that the component in the venom of this snake that has such an effect binds to the muscle receptor on human muscle and other animals ' muscles , and it binds there much more tightly than the natural chemical transmitter , which is called estialcodine , thereby preventing the transmission of the nerve impulse to the muscle and gives the victim instant miocenia and presumably a nice meal for the snake in due time . |
| 29 | A side-effect of the right of citizens to make foreign exchange deposits has been that , as inflation has continued and accelerated , the dinar value of these deposits has grown much more rapidly than the value of dinar assets held by households . |
| 30 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |