Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 2 | In any case the normal cost of equipping a good boat with an efficient crew would certainly not be higher , and probably be a little lower after the trade had settled down to its now increased dimensions than before . |
| 3 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 4 | Mr Bland said that the cost of the borrowings was much lower than the cost of the group 's equity , which he estimated at 20 per cent per annum . |
| 5 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 6 | Our panel rated PEBs much lower than the press or television news for providing information on issues , but similar to the press for providing information on leaders , and close behind the press and television news for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 7 | But the most important fact requiring explanation is the depth at which the bases of the reefs occur : in other words some mechanism is required to provide for the depth at which coral is found , because this is much lower than the depth at which reef-building corals flourish . |
| 8 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 9 | The percentage of older people living in institutional settings increases with age but is always very much lower than the percentage living in the community ( Figure 2.3 ) . |
| 10 | There is some evidence that in searches containing a single " of " ( like " objectives of common agricultural policy " ) the portion to the left of the preposition should be weighted somewhat lower than the portion to the right . |
| 11 | In our patients stone recurrence was 5.7% at one year which is somewhat lower than the recurrence rate observed by the Munich group : 11% at one year and 15% at two years . |
| 12 | Had the county council been able to use the final figures , the dwelling requirements at the end of the projection period would have been somewhat lower than the figure that we have produced . |
| 13 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 14 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 15 | Consideration of those data-types , in the next section , leads us to introduce a different form of computer architecture , the character or byte-oriented computer , where the basic storage unit is much shorter than the word ( typically eight bits long ) and all data-types are multiples of this unit . |
| 16 | In Fig. 4.2 , for example , the three-phase currents are quickly established at the maximum value because the phase winding time constants ( 1 ins ) are much shorter than the period of each excitation ( 20 ms at a speed of 50 steps per second ) . |
| 17 | However , it can not be very much lighter than the pulsar , otherwise the pulsar motion would not produce such a large Doppler shift . |
| 18 | Actually it is redder than Betelgeux , but it looks so much fainter that the colour is not so striking even in binoculars . |
| 19 | The process is very much quicker than the consensus approach . |
| 20 | The concept of an acquired disorder of cognition is , of course , much broader than the concept of an acquired disorder of language , but the latter concept is still extremely general ; and neurologists in the second half of the nineteenth century made it more specific in a variety of ways . |
| 21 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 22 | A mapping/mutational approach would clearly be much easier if a transcription factor with a more simple DNA-PK phosphorylation pattern was identified . |
| 23 | This is much easier if the person carrying the legs moves up close and supports the front person under his stomach . |
| 24 | This part is much easier if the model is equipped with an autorotation freewheel , but that , too , I will cover later . |
| 25 | The situation is much easier if the teacher is not working in isolation , but is part of a planned and coordinated programme . |
| 26 | You will find this task so much easier if the dog is used to the routine of having its leg lifted . |
| 27 | It is so much easier when the business actually comes through the letter box . |
| 28 | You had to put them all on in a piece you see with the tube in it and er things became much easier when the wheel base trim came in . |
| 29 | Entering text could n't be much easier as the program uses common word processing commands . |
| 30 | If he is n't prepared to do that then he must accept the workings of a system which is much fairer than the system which was previously enforced . |