Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More young people are staying on after 16 than ever before . |
| 2 | The pound had NOT been devalued — it was just worth less than before , a line echoed by Mr Lamont in TV interviews . |
| 3 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 4 | Ah , you probably know more about this than just about anybody outside government . |
| 5 | Many people would refer to them more as superhuman than as divine characters . |
| 6 | There was far more behind this than just a deterioration in the weather . |
| 7 | In its dependence on those presuppositions his biology was more like statistical than either celestial or quantum mechanics ( Hull , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | THE University of Southampton announced plans yesterday to more than double its student numbers over the next 35 years by building an additional campus . |
| 9 | There 's more to this than just finding Mike before he gets to Bernard , is n't there ? ’ |
| 10 | But there may be more to this than comradely debate . |
| 11 | Swelling more on left than right ; aching sore limbs , worse at night with restlessness ; extreme chilliness and sensitivity to the cold ; dry burning thirst ; cold sores on the lips ; highly inflamed and enlarged parotid and submaxillary glands , worse ( < ) cold , cold winds , cold wet . |
| 12 | They are up against more than just the law though . |
| 13 | Children benefit also from more than usually grammatical speech from adults who address them in the early stages in a fashion tailored to their learning needs . |
| 14 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 15 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 16 | Maybe when he really got roughed up or stayed out for more than just a few days , Manuel would think about talking things over with the vet , but for now , well , ‘ what 's the hurry , man ? ! ’ |
| 17 | But the question which began to be asked more often after 1962 than before was : were the costs worth it ? |
| 18 | Static welfare losses that arise from departures from competition in output markets are set against longer-run , dynamic gains which may arise from an increase in the supply of innovations that come about in less than perfectly competitive markets . |
| 19 | In terms of individual doctors this means an average practitioner will do a visit between 2300 and 0700 every nine days instead of less than once a month . |
| 20 | The Yugoslav revolution succeeded in preventing the nationalities within its state frontiers from massacring each other almost certainly for longer than ever before in their history and though this achievement is now unfortunately crumbling , by the end of 1988 national tensions had not yet led to a single fatality . |