Example sentences of "[noun pl] than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day 6 ) From the guidebook : ‘ More stupid pictures are now taken on Grand Canyon trips than the combined total of all stupid pictures taken elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | They also make significantly fewer social and recreational trips than the overall population . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 4 | Both lead ( found in lower concentrations than the legal limit for UK drinking water ) and chlorohydrocarbons were effectively cleared of being the cause of the problem . |
| 5 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 6 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 7 | To delimit ( find extent of ) the CBD using more quantifiable methods than the general observation . |
| 8 | Clutton-Brock ( 1974 ) , for example , using finer instruments and methods than the earlier work , and applying it to species contrasts , was able to show that differences between two colobus species living in the same forest were functions of their feeding ecology . |
| 9 | Administrative power is not only a means to a comfortable lifestyle measured by easier access to homes , cars , holidays and schools than the ordinary citizen . |
| 10 | This material will also bond well to stainless steel rods so that badly decayed timber can be drilled , stitched and glued to achieve higher strengths than the original construction . |
| 11 | It it it seems to me sir that that erm the the the that some of the inner routes at least the the red route performs better on on operating cost savings than the blue route . |
| 12 | Discrimination and neglect has meant that the design of goods for older people remains a much neglected field , and questions about ease of access , the positioning of buttons and so on , have been much less interesting to designers than the aesthetic judgement . |
| 13 | The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years . |
| 14 | He has been able to involve many more clubs than the senior side . |
| 15 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 16 | Public sector data users have generally had considerably more requests than the private sector , which conforms with evidence put forward at the committee stages of the Data Protection Bill that the public sector is viewed as offering the greatest threat to individual liberties . |
| 17 | In our experience , treatment of the data as a conventional heavy-atom derivative problem , combined with the use of a maximum-likelihood algorithm to estimate heavy-atom parameters , gave somewhat better maps than the algebraic formalism . |
| 18 | Frequent sugary snacks do more damage to teeth than the same amount of sugar all in one go , so try to limit sugary foods to mealtimes . |
| 19 | When , for example , some weaving households were at an adverse point in their family cycles , they might welcome the chance to work longer hours than the typical factory shift . |
| 20 | Some of the people looked as if they had been torn apart by animals with more in the way of teeth and claws than the Good Lord intended for them to have . |
| 21 | Hindle 's survey at the University of Lancaster , where a departmental selection system operated , showed that in one year a total of 17 departments had added books on the subject of ‘ operational research ’ to their collections — two of these ordering more titles than the operational research department itself . |
| 22 | The kiln , which is the only one of its kind in the UK , will generate less dust , less noise and considerably less emissions than the previous plant . |
| 23 | ‘ It follows ’ , he says , ‘ that the written language pays more attention to disambiguating word meanings than the spoken language does ’ ( 1980 , p. 56 ) . |
| 24 | But there are certain things , as I have suggested and other people have suggested , on which we have n't got a response from the group , the Labour Group , when we have made these suggestions , and I would be more open , I think , to suggestions and ideas from other groups than the Labour Party are at the moment . |
| 25 | The reforming governor 's efforts to place the hated exile system ‘ on a more orderly and business-like foundation ’ foundered on the twin reefs of under provision of infrastructural resources , and the over-supply of vastly more compulsory settlers and convict labourers than the restructured system was designed or intended to cope with . |
| 26 | To their credit , The Cherrys are more to do with cartoon frenzies than the slick professionalism which seemingly warrants a Spin front cover at the drop of a bobble hat , but it 's as hollow a victory as Linford Christie 's Olympic Gold in the absence of Carl Lewis . |
| 27 | As might have been expected , the larger exhibitions attracted considerably more visitors than the smallest exhibition , but all three received a generally favourable response from the public , with both the Carlyle and MacLean exhibitions being rated as Very Good or Good by at least 90% of those who saw them , and with 78% of those who saw the Skinner exhibition giving it similar ratings . |
| 28 | type having finer strokes than the medium typeface . |
| 29 | I am known all too well that it 's big rough galaxy out there , full of more surprises than the human imagination can conceive of . |
| 30 | ‘ Derby ’ matches were , consequently , less blood-baths between warring factions than the turbulent prelude to merciless intra- family taunting . |