Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | The score for American women is also strikingly lower than the 8% reached by their British sisters . |
| 5 | We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it begs the question who are they doing it with , if the female averages are really so much lower than the male ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Enthalpies of fusion are much lower than the enthalpies of vaporisation of the corresponding liquids . |
| 13 | Karl Semper 's Animal Life as Affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence of 1881 developed the concept that would later be known as the food-chain and noted that the total numbers of predators must be much lower than the numbers of the prey organisms to maintain a stable system . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 19 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | However , it can not be very much lighter than the pulsar , otherwise the pulsar motion would not produce such a large Doppler shift . |
| 23 | The process is very much quicker than the consensus approach . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Flight appreciably heavier than a gull but less so than a buzzard , and remarkably agile when chasing other birds ; will pursue even Gannets . |
| 28 | This is especially important if one person is much heavier than the other . |
| 29 | She must have seen my surprise , for she then used a native word for an unwanted or deformed child , or one born out of wedlock , much uglier than the word ‘ bastard ’ . |
| 30 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |