Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms ‘ stiff-necked ’ , ‘ tight-lipped ’ , ‘ pain in the neck ’ and so on are part of common everyday usage , and indicate something rather deeper than a simple muscle tension problem . |
| 2 | After being a highly-prized mistress she was now little better than a common prostitute , and her owners were now interested only in squeezing the last drops of revenue from her tired body . |
| 3 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 4 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 5 | In Britain , however , because of ministerial responsibility and because of the suspicion that the appropriate ministry could do the job much better than a new , inexperienced board ( which usually has a lower calibre of staff ) , the ministries concerned have their own sections on tourism , forestry and the countryside which go over everything the board in question proposes , giving authorizations , suggestions or exercising a veto . |
| 6 | Much better than a long piece of string ! |
| 7 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 8 | They suggest that if current trends in world population growth , industrialisation , pollution , food production and the depletion of non-renewable resources continue , then within a short space of time , perhaps less than a hundred years , economic growth will come to a halt , the industrial base of the world economy will collapse and finally after severe global recession and famine , not only will population growth fall dramatically but so will the level of population itself . |
| 9 | LTF , however , lasts much longer than a mere ten hours ; the effect can also be found in unanaesthetized animals implanted with permanent electrodes , and in such animals the potentiation has been observed as much as 16 weeks after the initial brief burst of stimulation . |
| 10 | I will not suppose them guilty of a direct intention of striking us , particularly if they had any idea of the danger of such a proceeding , for the cliff rose much more than a hundred feet above us , and even a very small stone would have fatal effect by striking the head . |
| 11 | And yet , the astonishing fact is that the H.T. that we know and take for granted today is not much more than a hundred years old , generally accepted as having originated in 1867 with the variety called ‘ La France ’ . |
| 12 | Cos in a very profound sense this is true , and I was so glad that it was I think a very serious part of the flow of Dr Stuart 's report that he mentioned that the er s sense of the ministry of the whole people of God as being much more than a distant objective for us , but something of absolutely essential , vital importance to the whole life and service and outreach of the church . |
| 13 | Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances . |
| 14 | The interest aroused by his songs encouraged Freeth to publish them , and the words of nearly 400 songs appeared in more than a dozen collections between 1766 and 1805 , John Baskerville [ q.v. ] being among his printers . |
| 15 | As the then Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , pointed out , ‘ an independent Fed in the US performed less well than a dependent central bank in Japan ’ . |
| 16 | Because this song was simply handed down from one generation of drill sergeants to another , the symbolism may have origins much earlier than a superficial analysis may indicate . |
| 17 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 18 | Again , it would adapt much faster than a legal body . |
| 19 | Their new roll-A-Perm takes a little longer than a general set but the results last up to eight weeks . |
| 20 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 21 | English Language is the study of the English language as it is today as well as of the history of its development over more than a thousand years . |
| 22 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 23 | The length of time for which the earth had been at a temperature suitable for life was estimated at not more than a million years . |
| 24 | Not more than a thousand and you only reach a limited number of people . |
| 25 | Cowley never looked anything less than dapper , in his long black greatcoat , bowler hat on head , umbrella carried over left arm , despite the chauffeured car that was waiting for him not more than a hundred yards away . |
| 26 | Apart from re-iterating his belief , which is gaining support , that there probably should be a completely new major circuit of not more than a dozen tournaments , based round the Grand Slams and culminating in one end-of-season event , Becker said ‘ We 're not machines . |
| 27 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 28 | To judge from police reports , the average crowd at Joyce 's street-corner speeches was not more than a dozen or twenty . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've had some success already — turned away more than a dozen chaps , we did , once they understood what we were on about . |
| 30 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |