Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age difference between the two groups , however , was not evenly distributed : males in the hidden sector were on average only 10 months younger than males in the known sector , while females were 2 years 8 months younger . |
| 2 | But " goods " are defined by section 61(1) of the Act as including : all personal chattels other than things in action and money . |
| 3 | The statutory definition of " goods " in s61(1) of SGA 1979 includes the following : " goods " includes all personal chattels other than things in action and money , and in Scotland all corporeal moveables except money ; and in particular " goods " includes emblements , industrial growing crops , and things attached to or forming part of the land which are agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale . |
| 4 | It was not long before the two families were joined with ties other than zeal for their faith and a deep devotion to its outworking . |
| 5 | Interestingly two of the lifeboatmen — Shane Coleman and Robert Gorman were at sea in vessels other than lifeboats in their medal-winning services — and George Williamson is a commercial fisherman with no direct connection with the RNLI . |
| 6 | Court judgments and arbitration awards may be enforced in countries other than England under various treaties . |
| 7 | ( Note that waves scattered in directions other than back towards the source have been omitted , and that the transmitted pulse would cover the whole planet . ) |
| 8 | Menaces other than threats of immediate force can not be robbery , only blackmail . |
| 9 | Actresses are particularly at risk , dying on average 21 years younger than women in other walks of life , says Professor Jib Fowles . |
| 10 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 11 | If you are a student from overseas you should note that you are currently likely to require approximately £106 each week for costs other than fees during your stay in this country . |
| 12 | We know they are different — if they were identical we would not need to consult the doctor for purposes other than access to resources — but we can not understand why they differ in these particular ways . |
| 13 | Between 1983 and 1986 , the only years for which comparable data is available , the total number of temporary workers other than participants in special programmes grew by just over five per cent . |
| 14 | Some of the functionality — such as technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages bigger than 11″ by 17″ — that enables it to be sold for over $10,000 , has been stripped out . |
| 15 | They should not be too large ; indeed some newspaper block-making equipment can not deal with prints larger than 10″ × 8″ . |
| 16 | To halt the decline the Hereford Herd Book Society is planning to label beef from the breed in butchers shops.It says Hereford beef tastes better than meat from Continental breeds.And it 's cheaper to produce , because Herefords are fattened on grass rather than on expensive cereals . |
| 17 | to protect persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work ; |
| 18 | ‘ protecting persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work ’ ; |
| 19 | ( 3 ) The third consideration supposedly favouring preference utilitarianism was that we may desire things other than experiences for ourselves . |
| 20 | On top of everything else , Italy is running out of opera singers , probably because the theatres have to spend their money on things other than academies for voice-training . |
| 21 | The scientists involved , including Douglas Higgs , the chief scientific officer for the Crown during the Maguire trial , had not told the trial that substances other than nitroglycerine on the defendants ' hands could have given a positive reading , or that " rogue " positive results could occur , nor had they disclosed this to the May inquiry . |
| 22 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 23 | Further down the gill , on a high bank on the south side and at the base of a low cliff , is the opening of Capnut ( or Katnot ) Cave where a roomy passage can be followed without encountering difficulties other than darkness for a hundred yards before returning to daylight . |
| 24 | Quietly , UI is also expected to begin relationships with firms other than USL for technology development on its behalf . |
| 25 | That is many times smaller than crystals of conventional ferric oxide , and about one ten-thousandth the diameter of a human hair . |
| 26 | segregation of the elderly in bungalows … and flats … cuts them off from neighbours other than people of their own age and accentuated their isolation . |
| 27 | The density of gas can be obtained at temperatures and pressures other than s.t.p. by using a rearranged form of the ideal gas equation ( 5 ) . |
| 28 | Further , peasants had ways other than involvement in the market of raising cash : there is charter and capitulary evidence for peasants mortgaging , and sometimes selling , land to their local priests . |
| 29 | ‘ Benefit ’ , however , can also be assessed in ways other than deferment of institutional care . |
| 30 | 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 . |