Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age difference between the two groups , however , was not evenly distributed : males in the hidden sector were on average only 10 months younger than males in the known sector , while females were 2 years 8 months younger . |
| 2 | He 'll be selling his Grade 1 eggs for about £2 a dozen — £1 less than eggs from organically reared hens usually cost , and at about the same price as the supermarkets charge for non-organic free-range hens ' eggs . |
| 3 | Alternatively , people in an average house in Southampton would pay £89 less than people in Salisbury . |
| 4 | If personal relationships counted for a great deal more than structures in such a world , nobility and kinship gave a man claims on royal favour ; and the most influential men — the holders of the key household offices , for instance — were those with special Königsnähe . |
| 5 | The Austrian fleece is one reason why Phoenix are able to offer Windstopper on some of their jackets at about £15 to £20 less than others on the market . |
| 6 | People living in a semi-detached house in Cambridge would pay £89 more than people in a similar house in Oxford simply because they were in East Anglia rather than the south-east , even though the semi-detached house in Oxford had cost much more . |
| 7 | Patients with the following characteristics were excluded : ( a ) women of childbearing age ; ( b ) patients with one or more of three established significant diabetic complications — namely , nephropathy with creatinine concentration >150 µmol/l ( proteinuria was not in itself an exclusion ) , ischaemia severe enough to have resulted in gangrene or amputation , and retinopathy worse than background in one eye . |
| 8 | This may be explained by the fact that more hydrogen was used in a metabolism other than methanogenesis in these subjects even on the basal diet . |
| 9 | But " goods " are defined by section 61(1) of the Act as including : all personal chattels other than things in action and money . |
| 10 | The statutory definition of " goods " in s61(1) of SGA 1979 includes the following : " goods " includes all personal chattels other than things in action and money , and in Scotland all corporeal moveables except money ; and in particular " goods " includes emblements , industrial growing crops , and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale . |
| 11 | It was not long before the two families were joined with ties other than zeal for their faith and a deep devotion to its outworking . |
| 12 | Interestingly two of the lifeboatmen — Shane Coleman and Robert Gorman were at sea in vessels other than lifeboats in their medal-winning services — and George Williamson is a commercial fisherman with no direct connection with the RNLI . |
| 13 | The response of hospitals has varied considerably — eg , introduction of full barrier nursing of all CF patients ; segregation of inpatients and outpatients ; no action other than separation for physiotherapy and sleeping ; and expansion of home intravenous therapy programmes . |
| 14 | The L-Series systems are targeted to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 15 | The L-Series systems are to list at 20% less than Sun on all models . |
| 16 | ‘ The first was for saving you from a fate worse than death with Doreen — but what was the second reason ? ’ |
| 17 | Addition of combinations of two NTPs other than GTP plus UTP did not lead to complex-stabilization ( not shown ) , corroborating that these were the two initiating NTPs for both promoters . |
| 18 | It was supposed to be work experience , but I did n't do much work other than stare at the test card , and this was a pretty boring experience . |
| 19 | Court judgments and arbitration awards may be enforced in countries other than England under various treaties . |
| 20 | ( Note that waves scattered in directions other than back towards the source have been omitted , and that the transmitted pulse would cover the whole planet . ) |
| 21 | Menaces other than threats of immediate force can not be robbery , only blackmail . |
| 22 | Because of the sanctity of the self-management system , any enterprise that makes a direct investment in another enterprise ( through so-called ‘ pooling labour and resources ’ ) has no control over the activities of the recipient organization and can expect no return other than interest on its investment ( at a sharply negative rate ) . |
| 23 | GDP figures suggest that Penang is about 20% richer than Malaysia as a whole and the gap is likely to grow . |
| 24 | Actresses are particularly at risk , dying on average 21 years younger than women in other walks of life , says Professor Jib Fowles . |
| 25 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 26 | If you are a student from overseas you should note that you are currently likely to require approximately £106 each week for costs other than fees during your stay in this country . |
| 27 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |
| 28 | This compact , chunky , self-declaiming HIV-positive homosexual performs in a style part gymnastic , part body-smashing , with a minimum of lighting , accoutrements , or clothing — one piece is danced naked , and little sound other than reverberation from the responsively miked dance floor , accentuating the heavy thuds of masochistic free-fall acrobatics . |
| 29 | Between 1983 and 1986 , the only years for which comparable data is available , the total number of temporary workers other than participants in special programmes grew by just over five per cent . |
| 30 | Some of the functionality — such as technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages bigger than 11″ by 17″ — that enables it to be sold for over $10,000 , has been stripped out . |