Example sentences of "[noun] to [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan turns out a vast number of graduates every year , but it begins to look as if the unthinkable in Tokyo , graduate unemployment , is about to become a serious problem : Fujitsu Ltd says it plans to slash the number of new hirings next spring to less than a seventh of this year 's figure — just 300 engineers , and , for the first year since its founding in 1935 , will take on no staff in its sales and administrative departments ; it will add 2,200 new staff to its 52,000 base this year compared with 3,000 in 1992 and nearly 4,000 in 1991 . |
| 2 | But just let the poor little woman open her legs to more than the statutory one , and she 's cheap , a woman of easy virtue , a social outcast . |
| 3 | nothing in this Condition shall limit the liability of the Carrier to less than the sum of £10 ; |
| 4 | Some sufferers , again particularly the juveniles and also those suffering severely from eating disorders — compulsive over-eating , anorexia or bulimia — may require long-term ( from a minimum of three months to more than a year ) support in a half-way house . |
| 5 | From 1989 to 1991 , Italy and the USSR decreased their contributions ; their joint share fell from a half to less than a quarter . |
| 6 | But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients . |
| 7 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 8 | The number of patients waiting at the end of last year rose to 990 and the average waiting time had risen from 35 weeks to more than a year . |
| 9 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 10 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 11 | And some London pubs have slashed their prices from £1.70 a pint to less than a pound . |
| 12 | Smith advised the manufacturers on how to reduce emissions to better than the 5 per cent permitted under the new Act . |
| 13 | Worse , they and the new land against which loans were secured declined in value in some cases to less than the amount borrowed , forcing lenders to foreclose . |
| 14 | The initiating member should provide an advance copy of the Investment Overview text to all Network members ( mailings to other than the full Network are discouraged ) , together with a list of foreign prospective purchasers already identified by the initiating member for each Network members jurisdiction ( eg the Swiss member of the Network will receive the Investment Overview text together with a list of Swiss prospective purchasers , if any , identified by the initiating member ) . |
| 15 | However , the furore which surrounded the release of a few hundred tonnes of intervention beef in England — an amount equivalent to less than a tenth of one per cent of the mountain — suggests the idea of simply selling beef cheaply to the European consumers who paid for it would be a difficult option . |
| 16 | The most usual method of sending out information to more than a few broadcasting stations or publications is by post . |
| 17 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 18 | Their accession on July 22 to ASEAN 's Treaty of Amity and Co-Operation signalled an end to more than a decade of hostility between them and their non-communist neighbours . |
| 19 | Electromagnetic waves with lengths ranging from several kilometres to less than a metre can be picked up by tuning a radio into long or short wavebands . |
| 20 | Give the Conservatives the credit of having played a very weak hand with great expertise , but they are still less of a threat to Labour than the SNP , now second in 35 seats . |
| 21 | One of the principal problems facing anglers fishing on Benbecula and the Uists , is knowing where to begin ; there are so many fine waters to choose from and never enough time to do proper justice to more than a handful . |