Example sentences of "[noun] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day 6 ) From the guidebook : ‘ More stupid pictures are now taken on Grand Canyon trips than the combined total of all stupid pictures taken elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | They also make significantly fewer social and recreational trips than the overall population . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 4 | Recollettas our Spanish investment paid off handsomely , profits more than doubled and Marker is er , the seven day a week sports paper , is now the er second biggest paper in Spain and has a higher readership than the first paper . |
| 5 | Such effects emphasize that the immediate economic dominion which Europe appeared to enjoy in 1880 was really less important for the future than the gradual integration of the whole world with the European industrial and commercial system . |
| 6 | A quick glance at the specifications that Detroit 's idea of a '90s performance saloon has more in common with current European thinking than the muscle-bound 7-litre American V8 's of the '60s and '70s . |
| 7 | The new Carrera 4 is a significantly better car than the old rear-drive 911 . |
| 8 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 9 | Both groups trained to attend to the sounds of words were significantly better at reading and spelling at the end of the study than the untrained group . |
| 10 | Both lead ( found in lower concentrations than the legal limit for UK drinking water ) and chlorohydrocarbons were effectively cleared of being the cause of the problem . |
| 11 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 12 | He insisted : ‘ Lady Thatcher did more to help British industry than the Labour Party has ever done . ’ |
| 13 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 14 | The value of relative inheritance arises because of difference ( 6 ) — the chunk difference : for example , assume a chunk of text includes a title that is to be in a bigger font than the surrounding text . |
| 15 | The book assumes that by now the reader is accustomed to disappointment and knows more about the tragedy of defeat than the drunken elixir of triumph . |
| 16 | David Scott , for example , complained that he got so many requests for Indian patronage from the council of St. Andrews that if the remaining burghs in his district were to seek aid in proportion to the size of their communities it ‘ would require more patronage than the whole East India Direction have in their gift ’ . |
| 17 | She slipped into a frock made of less tape than the average cassette . |
| 18 | Investment expenditure I is also assumed to be exogenous in our model , with factors such as business confidence and the expectations of entrepreneurs being considered more important determinants of the level of investment than the current level of income . |
| 19 | It was noticeable in our study that oesophageal peristaltic dysfunction was a commoner and more pronounced abnormality than reduced lower oesophageal sphincter pressure , which suggests that impaired oesophageal clearance may play a larger part in the pathophysiology of this condition than the defective barrier function of lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 20 | Subjective awareness ( a positive answer to the question ‘ Do you feel low ? ’ ) occurred at a lower blood glucose concentration than the initial adrenaline response but the threshold was identical for the two insulins ( 2.5 ( 0.1 ) mmol/l ) . |
| 21 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 22 | Better a little fish in a big pond than the other way round ? ’ |
| 23 | I should have preferred that to be put in a more positive light than the hon. Member for Fife , Central was able to do . |
| 24 | To delimit ( find extent of ) the CBD using more quantifiable methods than the general observation . |
| 25 | Clutton-Brock ( 1974 ) , for example , using finer instruments and methods than the earlier work , and applying it to species contrasts , was able to show that differences between two colobus species living in the same forest were functions of their feeding ecology . |
| 26 | It is simply necessary to ensure ( a ) that no strong stem contributes to the score of a record which is indexed under the corresponding weak stem , and ( b ) that a strong stem , if distinct from the corresponding weak stem , has lower weight than the weak stem . |
| 27 | Kirkwood ( who adopts the Prague School rather than the Hallidayan definition of theme and rheme ) , suggests that placing an element in initial position will give it a certain prominence but that it will still ‘ carry less weight than the actual rheme ’ . |
| 28 | The French investors are starved of the kind of new issues common to the British market -big , well-publicised privatisations or pseudo-privatisations aimed more at the general punter than the institutional investor . |
| 29 | The MX-3 , at 166ins long , is more a Volkswagen Corrado rival than the anticipated threat to the Honda CRX . |
| 30 | Administrative power is not only a means to a comfortable lifestyle measured by easier access to homes , cars , holidays and schools than the ordinary citizen . |