Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [art] [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 | A county court action is likely to provide a quicker hearing and one which is more convenient to the parties than a High Court hearing . |
| 7 | To delimit ( find extent of ) the CBD using more quantifiable methods than the general observation . |
| 8 | Further , firms can create networks of joint ventures which will provide them with much richer learning opportunities than a long-term marriage to a single partner might . |
| 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 | A phantom is bound to have longer legs , a sexier smile and better bedroom manners than a real person . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years . |
| 15 | Terry and Tom argued as well , and there often seemed to be far more serious undercurrents than a simple difference of opinion . |
| 16 | The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes . |
| 17 | He has been able to involve many more clubs than the senior side . |
| 18 | This means in turn that they must be shining almost unbelievably brightly — perhaps 100 or more times than an average galaxy . |
| 19 | But Cray 's music has always shown the influence of more forms than the urban twelve-bar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It reads more like a series of loosely joined essays than an integrated work . |
| 23 | She had more teeth than a game-show hostess on ZeeBeeCee , and breasts like udders . |
| 24 | The daily schedule of an 8.30 press conference followed by a flight , a bus , a walkabout , a lunch with regional media chiefs , a factory visit , a couple of interviews , a speech and another flight has often meant shorter working hours than a parliamentary day . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , a buy-in by the company of their shares may have a lower tax cost to the departing shareholders than a straightforward disposal , as illustrated below . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But doctors may be able to make swifter judgments than a lay jury , and anyway self regulation can not be bought on the cheap . |