Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 2 | The size of the type itself varies enormously , 12 point Bookman looks much bigger than 12 point times even though they both occupy the same amount of space vertically on the page . |
| 3 | Lone parent families are less likely than two parent families to have household consumer durables . |
| 4 | By comparison , batching and sorting the enquiries would lead to 126 head movements , most of which would be an absolute minimum of 10 ms and none of which would be much longer than 15 ms . |
| 5 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 6 | To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 7 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 8 | Lone parent families are more likely than two parent families to depend on social security benefits , and are less likely to have earnings from employment as their main source of income . |
| 9 | If deposits are renewed at shorter time intervals than the loan roll-over dates ( mostly six months ) , a bank might increase its profits , as seven day deposit funds are usually cheaper than six month funds . |
| 10 | The super bikes , with engines more powerful than 100 brake horsepower , are coming off the road in the interests of accident prevention . |
| 11 | More addictive than 0898 chat lines to a sad , lonely halfwit , larger than said sad cases 's phone bills , and more playable than a Dead Kennedys album , this is one game no self-respecting tiletrasher should be without . |
| 12 | One parent families tend to be slightly smaller than two parent families with an average of just under two children , compared to just over two children per family . |
| 13 | We all know that one point five of thirty thousand pound is far better than one point five of three thousand pound , yet with the present government crisis the T U C lacks in leadership in building a campaign to reject the pay policy . |
| 14 | The effect of this can be seen as the compiled code for VAX is typically smaller than PDP-11 code . |
| 15 | On Sundays no fewer than 15 church services were available . |