Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] than [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She claims proudly that one news agency had more requests for that photograph than any other that year . |
| 2 | Greyer , less rufous and with shorter call-note than Least Sandpiper , with stouter bill . |
| 3 | Frankly , ‘ fuck ’ is a better word for sexual intercourse than any other . |
| 4 | However , I have resurrected my garter bar and use it constantly for various little tricks that are quicker and easier with this gadget than any other . |
| 5 | For the next year or two Cromwell and his army were involved in the conquest of Scotland , and by May 1653 the Republic had more power to make itself obeyed over the whole of the British Isles than any monarch had ever had . |
| 6 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 7 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 8 | Before 1939 , the country probably possessed more half-timber Medieval structures than any other . |
| 9 | Musgrave suggested the scenery along this stretch of the Seine reminded him of Norfolk : ‘ more like English scenery than any district I had seen in Europe . ’ |
| 10 | Stoner in fact discovered , as I did eventually , that asking the obvious , straightforward things that worried opponents of nuclear power often got much more interesting answers than any attempt to confront the technicalities . |
| 11 | He predicts that intense X-rays will destroy hazardous organic wastes without ever having to take them out of their 55 gallon drums — a much safer and cleaner operation than most clean-up techniques . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a crying shame , ’ thought Billy , ‘ here 's a man who knows more about this river than any man alive . |
| 13 | So big is the rush expected in the shops that W. H. Smith has bought more copies of this book than any other in its history . |
| 14 | Yet it was a triumph of Victorian engineering and now adds more to the English landscape than most railway lines do . |
| 15 | Indeed , my guess is that this particular political scandal will have a far more profound effect on the spending patterns of the British public than any Autumn Statement incentive or cut in interest rates . |
| 16 | In their opinion , the calling in of Wolff Olins was more of a symptom of this malaise than any kind of cure . |
| 17 | They have been living since the nursery with different materials around them and objects having different weights , and they have a concealed knowledge of ice-water-steam which is more helpful to a teacher at this stage than any class experiments . |
| 18 | Hotel queen Leona Helmsley drew bigger crowds than some Broadway plays , and the periodic trials of corrupt city officials get better viewing ratings than some television sit-coms . |
| 19 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 20 | Bristol overtook Gloucester 's 14–3 lead in the second half but two late tries by Morris for Gloucester gave the score a more one-sided look than this mid-table contest had actually been . |
| 21 | Nothing could define more clearly the limits of what Anselm regarded as his personal responsibility than this agreement . |
| 22 | In the castle , while baby Alan grew out of his six-week colic , there was an added sharpness to Marion Aluinn 's tongue , for she realised she had a more serious rival than any lass ; Lachlan 's rediscovered love of fighting . |
| 23 | An' you should know that this city 'as got a bigger mouth than any reporter from any newspaper . |
| 24 | AIB had just the man for this task — an engineering inspector with more experience of such matters than any other I have met . |
| 25 | The organisers of the Papal Mass at Bellahouston are likely to have a far bigger crowd than any football ground , and if the television audience is added then the potential is almost unlimited . |
| 26 | The when was important — the hurricane was a more accessible ally than either Caspar at the US Embassy or Steve back in Washington with his promise of the heavy brigade . |
| 27 | ‘ He does the journey three times a day and does more for that community than any amount of social workers , teachers or vicars , ’ enthused Mr Gregory . |
| 28 | It says more about the concept of the European Community than any amount of leaflets and party political broadcasts can . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The distinguished travel writer Freya Stark , ’ Mr Hart-Davis wrote in the Mail on Sunday , ‘ is 100 today — and it would be hard to imagine a less welcome present than this biography , which struggles feebly but nastily to belittle its subject . ’ |
| 30 | If we consider the mathematics of combinations we must come to the conclusion that the pattern making activity of the mind is far better designed for conceptual thinking than any computer . |