Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 2 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 3 | The face of his father 's surgeon , Hua , filled the screen , the old man 's features more expressive than a thousand words . |
| 4 | The four speed box would be more economical than the three speed and is a relatively easy conversion . |
| 5 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 6 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 7 | Dressed in a pair of designer jeans that were stretched over her buttocks like clingfilm , and with blotchy skin without a trace of make-up , she looked closer to fifty than the forty Dexter knew she really was . |
| 8 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 9 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |
| 10 | McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study showed clearly that the personal incomes of ex-carers were around £40 lower than the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) per capita average , while the incomes of two-adult households containing an ex-carer were £144 a week lower than their FES counterparts . |
| 11 | For both Lothian and Scotland the 1991 totals are lower than the 1981–85 base but higher than the 1991 ‘ interim ’ target . |
| 12 | It was pointed out that this ensured the highest quality from such a large harvest and that the overall permitted yield of 95 hectolitres per hectare was in fact lower than the 95.3 hectolitres per hectare granted in 1982 . |
| 13 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 14 | The old campaigner 's sense of what was honourable in such matters was more acute than the three sons of George III who , in the words of the author of the tract The Royal Criterion ( 1814 ) ‘ resorted to every mode of raising money without a scruple as to the means . ’ |
| 15 | Er of course it 's , it 's , it 's I think it 's more longwinded than er I mean it 's the first time you 've fully got into it , and it 's more longwinded than the fifteen minutes allows you erm but I , I thought you were doing quite well to be honest . |
| 16 | Beneath this lay sixty to a hundred communion wafers , each no bigger than a ten pence piece , each with four small Xs crossed by vertical letter Ps embossed on the surface . |
| 17 | In 1974 the Iraqis came up with a detailed law for the autonomous area that was far more restrictive than the 1970 agreement and in no way reflected its accommodating spirit . |
| 18 | In this respect the proposed test is , if anything , clearer than the two rivals . |
| 19 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 20 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |
| 21 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 22 | Tonight 's gig encapsulates everything The Farm are good at — simple , terrace-anthem pop which can be entertaining and more affecting than a thousand Simon Dudfield pouts . |
| 23 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 24 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 25 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 26 | He was one of fewer than a dozen leaders conversant with the Society 's policy of seeking French military help , and in 1796 he was appointed to the movement 's first national executive committee . |
| 27 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 28 | ‘ Fewer than a dozen people know the contents of the speech — some at the BBC and some at Buckingham Palace . ’ |
| 29 | An example is the trial currently underway to see whether breast cancer screening by mammography is better yearly than every three years . |
| 30 | For the size of frame illustrated , and smaller , use nothing larger than a 60 watt bulb |