Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale of the country defies imagination : there is one District in the southern part of Western Australia , larger than Scotland with 400 teachers in it . |
| 2 | Such an eventuality — which no one who had studied the results of Irish elections could suppose to be quite improbable — would put us back to February 1974 , when Labour with 37.1% had fewer votes than the Conservatives with 37.9% , but with 301 seats won more than the Conservatives with 297 ; or to 1951 , when the Conservatives with 48.0% had fewer votes than Labour with 48.8% , but with 321 seats won more than labour with 295 . |
| 3 | This approaches the highest transverse velocity so far directly measured ( PSR2224+65 ) but is less than velocities of 1,700 and 2,300kms -1 inferred for the two young pulsars PSR1800–21 ( W30 ; G8.7–0.1 ) , and PSR1757–24 ( G5.4–1.2 ) , respectively . |
| 4 | According to government statistics women earned on average one-third less than men in 1989 , and less than 4 per cent of top business jobs were held by women . |
| 5 | Patients with the following characteristics were excluded : ( a ) women of childbearing age ; ( b ) patients with one or more of three established significant diabetic complications — namely , nephropathy with creatinine concentration >150 µmol/l ( proteinuria was not in itself an exclusion ) , ischaemia severe enough to have resulted in gangrene or amputation , and retinopathy worse than background in one eye . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , rates of known opioid use among the youth ( 16–24-year-old ) populations were higher than S per 1,000 in 23 of Wirral 's 48 townships . |
| 7 | Seroconversion rates in these children ( 67% to 100% ) were much higher than rates after one dose of IPV administered to newborn infants ( 20% to 43% ) , which may be because of maturation of the immune system , the priming effect of previous OPV administration , or a reduction in interference from maternal antibody when IPV is given to older children . |
| 8 | By entering into an FRA , which sets the reinvestment terms when the three month CD matures , an overall return to the issuer higher than LIBOR minus ⅛ can be achieved . |
| 9 | The beam weapons that might seem invulnerable in 1983 might turn out to be no more potent than peashooters in 2033 . |
| 10 | Absolute pancreatic weight was 4.9% less than controls at one week but was 18% greater than controls at two weeks and 27% greater at three weeks . |
| 11 | Another was that , while Recommendations 7 and 8 had proposed higher payments to tutors , the Report had seen 75% of teaching costs as the maximum grant available , leaving the prospect of a widening gap to be filled from voluntary sources — 25% of a salary of ( say ) £700 being greater than 25% of one of £600 . |
| 12 | I 'd rather be dead than fight on one of those things . ’ |