Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , better this than the alternative , ‘ Dookeepent-arch ’ , which means ‘ Please , let's never see each other again ’ . |
| 2 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in terms of practical results , the deforestation of vast areas of Brazil affects the rest of the world much more than the oppression and murder of relatively small numbers of people . |
| 4 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 5 | The job was n't arduous , but she knew that gradually she was taking on much more than the advertisement had suggested and she sensed that the main anxiety of their life was whether she would stay . |
| 6 | If someone is given too much change in a supermarket , for instance , they might keep the money claiming that they need it much more than the supermarket does and , anyway , nobody would find out . |
| 7 | Deep sleep appears to be a response to our life-style and reflects the amount of prior wakefulness much more than the time of day when sleep is taken . |
| 8 | It was perhaps more than the chill air that flushed the parson 's cheeks as he bent to fasten his skates . |
| 9 | Perhaps more than the end of work , these had continued to spell riches and freedom . |
| 10 | The number of nested Boolean conditions that can be handled by an inverted file is generally less than the number a serial file can handle . |
| 11 | As a result the accuracy of a composite map from overlay analysis is generally less than the accuracy of the least accurate map layer used ( Newcomer and Szajgin 1984 ) . |
| 12 | In the time we had been there I had learnt scarcely more than the theatre and the streets about our lodgings . |
| 13 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 14 | Private investors account , on average , for about 20 per cent of the equity of privatised companies — scarcely more than the market norm . |
| 15 | ( c ) Repayment of loans from settlors Where the capital sum paid to the settlor is a sum paid by way of complete repayment of a loan , then , if an amount not less than the sum is thereafter lent by the settlor to the trustees of the settlement , no part of that sum shall by virtue of TA 1988 , s677(1) be treated as his income for any year of assessment after that in which the further loan is made ( TA 1988 , s677(5) ) . |
| 16 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 17 | In addition , there may well be a requirement that any sub-letting is to be at not less than the rent in the lease , and that any sub-lease is to contain similar rent reviews to those in the lease . |
| 18 | Where a capital sum is paid to the settlor in the year of assessment by a body corporate connected with the settlement in that year it shall be assumed until the contrary is shown that an associated payment of an amount not less than the amount of the capital sum has been made to that body corporate by the trustees of the settlement ( s678(7) ) . |
| 19 | Such an equilibrium is stable ; that is , the price , if displaced a little from it , will tend to return , as a pendulum oscillates about its lowest point ; and it will be found to be a characteristic of stable equilibria that in them the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , and vice versa . |
| 20 | If the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , it is sure to be less than the supply price for amounts just greater : and therefore , if the scale of production is somewhat increased beyond the equilibrium position , it will tend to return ; and the equilibrium will be stable for displacements in that direction also . |
| 21 | Always get something tangible first , and pay for not more than the work done . |
| 22 | Exactly what we spend our money on does not matter too much , as long as the money going out is not more than the money coming in . |
| 23 | I know the test is fairly expensive but it 's certainly not more than the cost of caring for babies born with the defects . ’ |
| 24 | They have played some great football and it was not more than the team deserved , and was great reward for manager Doug Williams in his first year in charge . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly , the landlord 's covenants are rather fewer than the tenant 's and if one was of a mind , and really thought that it was worth the effort , it is possible to invent several pages of landlord 's covenants which the tenant would dearly like to have included , but this would definitely not be worthwhile . |
| 26 | The Second Law states that the amount of energy obtained from a system is always less than the amount absorbed , so it eventually ‘ runs out of steam ’ . |
| 27 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 28 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 29 | He feared the goats only marginally less than the snorting , grinning pigs , and only then because the five nannies and their billy were usually safely tied up in the long grass . |
| 30 | The plants were moved to chilling temperatures for a fairly short time , and any resulting decline in growth was probably less than the variation . |