Example sentences of "[adj] than [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 2 | The Athletic News snorted indignantly : ‘ As a matter of commerce , ten young recruits at £100 a piece might have paid better , and as a matter of sport , the Second Division would be more honourable than retention of places by purchase . ’ |
| 3 | They are ultimately more instructive than stories of nonagenarians who scale Everest or even ( enjoyable though they are ) of Lord Denning 's battles with the government from his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 4 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 5 | In 1979-1980 , fewer than 30% of girls leaving school and under 20% of boys entered full-time further education . |
| 6 | This avoids mass screening and means that fewer than 5% of women will receive intrapartum chemoprophylaxis . |
| 7 | Fewer than 5% of seats changed hands in the 1970 general election . |
| 8 | The survey said that fewer than 40% of companies had collected the VAT numbers from fewer than half of their customers . |
| 9 | Fewer than 10% of respondents answered this question negatively , making it one of the most unambiguously supported proposals in the paper . |
| 10 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |
| 11 | Apple spokesmen commented that Xerox 's software concepts were not protected by copyright any more than depictions of birds and trees are protected by the copyright on a painting . |
| 12 | ‘ Punishment ’ may be no more than withdrawal of rewards . |
| 13 | Yet despite this there has mostly in practice been little depth , little more than discussion of opinions with regard to these ultimate questions — what one disillusioned teacher called " mutual exchange of ignorance " . |
| 14 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 15 | La Doriclea ( 1645 ) is notable for its number of choral scenes , which were clearly sung by genuine choruses — unlike the cori which were commonly no more than ensembles of soloists . |
| 16 | Heat is nothing more than energy of atoms in motion , so if you can slow down atoms , you are in effect cooling them . |
| 17 | Of the others — and this is no more than reportage of answers to the question - the ambulance services emerge reasonably well , in that they allow service by right of assessment . |
| 18 | With a more than halving of losses in the second quarter to $48.7m ( 1992 : $100.2m loss ) , the worldwide underwriting deficit at the mid year was down by $106.2m from $235.2m ( representing 12.3% of premiums ) to $129.0m ( 6.1% of premiums ) , a reduction due largely to a substantial improvement in the UK result . |
| 19 | ‘ Uneven development ’ relates to far more than numbers of jobs and levels of unemployment . |
| 20 | Of these seven patients , six had potential aetiological factors other than use of gangliosides ; protopathic bias was detected in five , and in the remaining one it was doubtful whether the drug could be blamed . |
| 21 | The language of peace implied groups , and memories of the peace embodied in marriages which created kinship for successive generations were more enduring than memories of quarrels . |