Example sentences of "[adj] than [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their smaller size — an adult male weighs around 150 lb ( 70 kg ) and a female perhaps 30 lb ( 14 kg ) less — makes them more adaptable than either the lion or the tiger , as does their athleticism . |
| 2 | The Latvians had fascists who were more vicious than even the Germans . |
| 3 | Organisers of the 1994 World Cup finals admit they face an uphill battle in winning the support of US television viewers for a sporting event that to the rest of the world is bigger than even the Olympics . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's become a big problem , bigger than just the problem facing us , ’ said a Williams team insider last night . |
| 5 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 6 | It has to pick its way through the minefield of NT and Unix and estimate whether COSE is bigger than just the desktop . |
| 7 | Our country , as a nation , has a spirit and will — it is much bigger than merely the mechanisms of markets . |
| 8 | Particularly with such beefy recording that absence makes them seem heavier than either the Dorati ( Decca ) or Marriner ( Philips ) , both of which use harpsichord continuo to leaven the textures . |
| 9 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 10 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 11 | What is much better than just the security levels is the User Definable menus . |
| 12 | It comes on two CDs which makes it cheaper than either the Philips or Harmonia Mundi sets , and has a choir in Collegium Musicum 90 who for clarity of diction , and intense musicality , surpass all other versions with the exception of Eliot Gardiner 's Monteverdi Choir . |
| 13 | Declared expenditure on defence and security is now more than double the expenditure on health . |
| 14 | But the effect of this series of pessimistic changes was to more than double the estimates for wave power up to a range of 8–12 p/kWh . |
| 15 | If one is more than double the other , we should not fit a straight line . |
| 16 | The growth in occupational pension provision for women was even more marked with more than double the proportion of 60–69 year olds having them ( 32 per cent ) compared with the over-80s ( 15 per cent ) . |
| 17 | The Micom Communications Corp subsidiary of MB Communications Inc , Lawrence , Pennsylvania has announced a new model in its Marathon range of data and speech network servers which is claimed to more than double the performance of the previous products . |
| 18 | Thus , the benefit for a pensioner couple over 80 will rise from £88.45 a week to £96.15 a week — an increase of 8.7 per cent. , which is more than double the increase in the retail prices index . |
| 19 | The black spot is its unemployment rate of 14% , which is more than double the OECD average . |
| 20 | Two hydrocyclone separators are to be installed on the Gyda platform next year to more than double the installation 's water handling capacity to 35,000 barrels a day in readiness for an anticipated increase in produced water from the reservoir . |
| 21 | Even before last week 's double blitz the Compensation Agency for Northern Ireland was facing record pay-outs this year — more than double the total for 1991–92 . |
| 22 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 23 | On housing , I have increased Scottish Homes ' grant in aid next year by £27 million compared with 1991-92 planned expenditure — excluding repayments to the national loans fund — more than double the rate of inflation . |
| 24 | The Roads Minister , Kenneth Carlisle , defended the decision to more than double the costs of the road by citing " the beauty and sensitivity of the countryside " . |
| 25 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 26 | The Wakefield firm has launched an agreed cash offer of 160p a share — more than double the market price — which values Stag at £12.35m . |
| 27 | Even 17.8 per cent , however , was still more than double the growth of average earnings over that period . |
| 28 | Gordon Owen , the managing director in charge of Mercury , says the group is anxious not to more than double the network in a year as it is a case of ‘ how fast you can go without falling over ’ . |
| 29 | The CBI points out that UK corporate taxes , at more than 4% of GDP in 1989 , are more than double the amount of state aid to industry . |
| 30 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |