Example sentences of "[noun] than a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New car registrations were nearly 16 per cent higher in the latest three months than a year earlier . |
| 2 | the girls ' bedrooms which was more like a boxroom than a bedroom before |
| 3 | It 's more of a noise than a sound sometimes , but in a way it 's how a proper bass should sound . |
| 4 | I have always felt chastened by an academic maxim that there is no greater error than a problem wrongly stated . |
| 5 | A man alone always attracts more attention than a couple together . |
| 6 | Jamie Marston , the youngest competitor , struggled hard to make headway in a leaking canoe borrowed from the host club while Peter Weeks showed much greater confidence than a year ago when he was the youngest sailor . |
| 7 | The temple of the White Sikhs has moved on , there are many more South Asians than a decade ago , Egyptians have taken over one of the fast-food diners . |
| 8 | They placed fewer orders with suppliers than a year ago and ran down their stocks in January . |
| 9 | The survey showed that almost two-thirds of small firms were selling on credit and 40 per cent were giving more credit than a year previously . |
| 10 | His confidence in the Queen 's ability to ‘ bounce back ’ seems to be borne out in surveys , with 10 per cent more people than a year ago naming her as their favourite royal . |
| 11 | Six-monthly unemployment is worse in all regions than a year ago . |
| 12 | And most shops did LESS business this August than a year ago . |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that NHS trust hospitals are treating many more patients than a year ago ? |
| 14 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ We now have fewer factories , fewer machines and fewer workers in manufacturing than a decade ago . |
| 16 | It is hard to find a more pitiful sight than a clownfish desperately trying to associate with a shrunken unhealthy anemone a little larger than its own size . |
| 17 | He has not acknowledged that more people are now moving out of unemployment than a year ago . |
| 18 | Product revenues declined because of continuing weak economic conditions , highly competitive pricing and the negative impact of foreign exchange rate movements , although the company continued to ship more computer systems than a year ago — but at a lower average price per system . |
| 19 | A recent independent poll on exactly that matter showed that already , within the first year , a significant number of patients of general practitioners recognised that they were getting better services than a year previously . |
| 20 | Meyer 's chairman Richard Jewson says that in the first four months of this year there is absolutely no sign of more people moving house than a year ago . |