Example sentences of "[noun] than [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 3 | A brisk walk or jog for half-an-hour will do much more to build stamina than a twelve-second sprint . |
| 4 | For species actually to act with a sense of past and future history would be a far more radical departure than the first land creature crawling out of the sea . |
| 5 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 6 | Fourth year pupils were the principal subjects of the study as they would be members of their school for a full school year and were likely to have a lower absentee rate than the fifth year . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's all about doing it better and with more style than the next man . |
| 8 | We are more used to talking about facts as causes than the first criticism allows . |
| 9 | The New Business Monitor recorded seven per cent fewer account change announcements in the fourth quarter , equivalent to 14 per cent less billing than the third quarter . |
| 10 | And what better time to consider this dead end than the twentieth anniversary of 1967 , that pivotal point at which sixties beat music leapt into the beyond , and the very notion of ‘ the progressive ’ was born . |
| 11 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |
| 12 | Let us hope that the choice of Manchester for the next Davis Cup tie will provide more interest than the last match against France . |