Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 2 | House prices there boomed in 1987 and the first-half of 1988 and have since fallen more sharply than in most other areas . |
| 3 | This is also an area where the LEA could assist a school in offering its services as a ‘ critical friend ’ , able to stand back and perhaps judge more objectively than those working in the school itself . |
| 4 | " I m sorry , Mr Beamish , but he 'll be away all day and I thought I 'd better come along rather than leave it till tomorrow . " |
| 5 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 6 | The top executive who is constantly looking ahead rather than backwards will rarely steer his company into a tight corner , in Laing 's view . |
| 7 | Microsoft must foresee where the market is going , where and how to direct its effort — and do so better not just than lively young rivals eager to up-end it like IBM , but than powerful companies moving in from outside the industry . |
| 8 | The discount — the Achilles heel of the system — would be better abandoned now rather than later . ’ |
| 9 | Although we found the geese , the nests were long deserted and the large creches of goslings were big enough to run much faster than we could . |
| 10 | The relative costs of bus , coach and rail fares since 1975 have all increased more rapidly than the costs of running a private car or motorcycle . |
| 11 | To have a chance of winning this superb prize , just answer the three questions below and send your answers in to arrive not later than 28th August . |
| 12 | He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated . |
| 13 | ‘ Better to marry too much than not at all , ’ she said cryptically . |
| 14 | In 1945 , papers in Bath , Carlisle , Darlington , Scarborough and North Shields all published not more than 15,000 copies a day ( the Scarborough Evening News published 8,000 ) . |
| 15 | Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover . |
| 16 | City firms have already stumped up more than £300 million for Taurus and are in no mood to inject any more cash into a replacement . |
| 17 | It can not do any better than this since this is the iso-vote line which is tangential to the relevant Phillips curve . |
| 18 | On a more phenomenological level , if we wanted some visual analogue to the associationist view of mental life we could not do much better than think of one of those ‘ psychedelic ’ slide-shows popular in the late 1960s , in which lights were projected through oil , producing coloured globs which met , merged and repelled in a series of kaleidoscopic patterns . |
| 19 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
| 20 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 21 | A cap on interest charged on misdeclarations , so that assessments of interest will not date back more than three years . |
| 22 | With so many difficult decisions to be made , ‘ Jacki ’ is happier than most players to accept his manager 's warning not to look further ahead than the next game . |
| 23 | For when I plead with him he says , ‘ I 'm not going any slower than this . |
| 24 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 25 | Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake . |
| 26 | Best used alone rather than in mixed bedding , in rock gardens , containers , & clumps at front of borders . |
| 27 | They knew that any noise from within the atmosphere would be stronger when the detector was not pointing straight up than when it was , because light rays travel through much more atmosphere when received from near the horizon than when received from directly overhead . |
| 28 | In any event , in colonial Vietnam reformists did not fare much better than revolutionaries . |
| 29 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 30 | You 've already stayed much later than you said . ’ |