Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 2 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 3 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 4 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 5 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 6 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 7 | The frames of the furniture were sound , a lot better than the kind of stuff they manufactured nowadays . |
| 8 | Although it has disadvantages , it is a great deal better than the kind of society in which there is no free press , or in which the press is gagged by more and more complex and frequently unworkable rules . |
| 9 | He is lasting as good as , if not better than the rest of the side . |
| 10 | ‘ The North-East has done better than the rest of the UK under Conservative policies . ’ |
| 11 | Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , for example , has shown that self-report measures of how peppy , active or vigorous a person feels correlate well with a broad range of physiological measures of arousal , usually better than the intercorrelation of such measures with one another . |
| 12 | Where better than the south of France , which she knew like the back of her hand ? |
| 13 | Their wives were chic , exquisitely dressed — far better than the majority of women in post-war Paris . |
| 14 | Even man understands his fellow humans better than the language of the animals and other creatures . |
| 15 | If Ballesteros was partially responsible for the all those individual successes , then Jacklin may deserve the credit not just for the Ryder Cup but for demonstrating that inspirational leadership , combined with an infinite capacity for detail , can produce a team better than the sum of its parts . |
| 16 | In any case , the continuation of the war was forcing the revolution to dig much deeper than the topsoil of reforms . |
| 17 | A stubbornly reactionary tsar might conceivably have delayed the measure , but the key to the decision to emancipate lies considerably deeper than the mind of Alexander . |
| 18 | One comes from revelation and inspiration , and is guided by a light higher than the light of human understanding , and a truth deeper than the truth of outward existence and accepts a changing reality that ultimately leads to freedom . |
| 19 | On record at least , it is largely choirs that have waved the flag on behalf of Byrd 's forgotten motets , none more valiantly than the Choir of New College , Oxford , directed by Edward Higginbottom . |
| 20 | He added : ‘ In reality , the royal women have a second-class place in the Royal Family , and no one more so than the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 21 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 22 | The Ridgeway in Wiltshire and Berkshire may well have been used in prehistoric times , but probably no more so than the line of the A4 across the same counties . |
| 23 | Given Rangers ' heavy schedule , most importantly next week 's European Champions League match with FC Brugge in Belgium , the sight of Steven departing the field was a depressing one for Rangers , certainly more so than the booking of Ian Ferguson before the interval . |
| 24 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 25 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 26 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 27 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 28 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |
| 29 | The amount of fat we actually need is staggeringly low at 5 grams ( less than a quarter of an ounce ) per day , providing it contains the right kind of fatty acids . |
| 30 | Fremont , California-based Everex Systems Inc cut its workforce by another 150 people , 25% to 500 , less than a quarter of its size 15 months ago . |