Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measures , derived from the basic data , contrasted the two groups much more clearly than did simple counts of frequency of behaviour in the original catalogue of 120 categories . |
| 2 | And banks reckon they can distribute life products much more cheaply than big insurers , which have costly and old-fashioned national sales networks . |
| 3 | Modern publications were consulted by readers much more frequently than older material : 85% of all issues were twentieth-century publications , and 42% had been published only since 1970 . |
| 4 | The pattern recognition should also be able to identify the beginnings of words much more accurately than at present , and more investigation of the efficacy of some measure of word length would be useful . |
| 5 | In general , too , rhythmic and temporal features of speech are ignored in transcriptions ; the rhythmic structure which appears to bind some groups of words more closely together than others , and the speeding up and slowing down of the overall pace of speech relative to the speaker 's normal pace in a given speech situation , are such complex variables that we have very little idea how they are exploited in speech and to what effect ( but , cf. |
| 6 | In the United States , the frame rate is 15 frames per second because the domestic electricity supply pulses slightly more rapidly than in Europe . |
| 7 | Subjects woken during an REM burst have been shown by S. Molinari and David Foulkes to report highly vivid visual experiences much more frequently than when woken from periods of REM " quiescence " . |
| 8 | Consistent with this , the homologous Vmw175 DNA binding domain , and also intact Vmw175 , recognize the gene 62 binding sites much less efficiently than the 140k DNA binding domain . |
| 9 | Nevertheless mortality had begun to fall in most Western countries only slightly later than in Britain , almost irrespective of the degree to which they had industrialized their economies , and with a similar diminution of particular causes of death ( Preston 1975 , 1976 ) . |
| 10 | Yet most modern models of language , from Saussure 's onwards , give a fuller and more coherent account of it than traditional grammar ever did , and therefore offer the possibility of describing the linguistic features of texts far more exactly than was possible with the rag-bag of grammatical and metaphorical terminology on which criticism has traditionally depended . |
| 11 | Hopefully you will also be raising money through sponsorship to help selected projects in countries far worse off than our own . |
| 12 | And it is a point that needs to be rammed home to directors even more firmly than to auditors . |
| 13 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 14 | Unlike the personal care between spouses , these patterns of support here are highly gendered , with daughters and mothers being carers much more commonly than sons and fathers ( Bayley , 1973 ; Wilkin , 1979 ; Glendinning , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | A position which provides shelter from wind is almost more important than one which receives all the sun available ; wind is excessively drying and moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized , along with the essential oils , relatively " heavy " though they are . |
| 16 | Its results are weapons already far better than needed to defeat second-rate enemies , which may be the only ones to worry about once the Soviet Union has imploded . |
| 17 | Fluid balance is an extremely delicate indicator of health and as such , can warn of serious problems much more quickly than pulse and respiratory rates . |
| 18 | As the authors state , such letters are also of benefit to hospital clinicians , who can focus on the problems much more quickly than by scanning notes ( often untidy or illegible ) plus related correspondence and results . |
| 19 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 20 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 21 | In order to benefit from favourable international developments , indeed in order to avoid falling victim herself to the volatile diplomacy of the period , Russia had to mobilize her resources far more effectively than she had under Peter 's predecessors . |
| 22 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 23 | The processors themselves are linked by a mesh of point-to-point connections , which carry localised traffic between co-operating processors far more efficiently than a shared bus . |
| 24 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 25 | Such ‘ elastic ’ connection lines make drawing box charts such as flow diagrams , hierarchy charts , PERT diagrams etc. much easier than using a normal drawing package . |
| 26 | We should be using e-mail for internal communications much more widely than we do at present , in order to reduce the amount of paper we currently distribute , and to send specific messages to individuals and groups . |
| 27 | We could say that having lost these illusions in socialism we have studied economic theories much more thoroughly than Western intellectuals have done . |
| 28 | The plaintiff as an individual will feel the pressures much more keenly than the defendant , backed by the insurance company . |
| 29 | Hexagonal arrays give complex patterns , but show less of the lacy , fractal character seen above , unless we weight the pay-offs from self-interactions somewhat more heavily than from neighbours ( which is biologically plausible ) . |
| 30 | She also found no food preferences associated with shell colour ( i.e. pigmented whelks did not select mussels any more often than white ones did ) . |