Example sentences of "[noun pl] than a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd sold his own car for cash in Carlisle , and he had more important uses for his funds than a guest-house bed . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is often the ability of management to agree the deal with much less protection in the way of warranties than a trade purchaser would accept that helps management to win the deal from the vendor . |
| 3 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 4 | Even if certain of the valuations are not as objective as historical cost valuations , it may be argued that an approximate current value is of more benefit to users of the financial statements than a zero valuation or a precise but irrelevant historical cost valuation . |
| 5 | Truth to tell , though , the Scottish second division strugglers have had a fair few ‘ last ’ games recently — more funerals than a Co-op undertaker . |
| 6 | If he , Paul Arkwright , could make his own name again in this way it might lead to even better things than a University chair . |
| 7 | He has hitched his wagon to more stars than a Romany king yet he 'd have put down lifelong roots at first love Manchester City , and not just because a ground called Maine Road was bound to be his spiritual home . |
| 8 | " I 'd much rather have written instructions than a telephone call . " |
| 9 | We are in the salon of Dame Edna 's Mayfair penthouse , slightly smaller than Versailles and banked by more floral tributes than a Mafia funeral . |
| 10 | A factor will also advance more funds against invoices than a bank manager . |
| 11 | Given Hoving 's long-standing jealousy of John Walsh , a former curator in the European paintings department who is now the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum , it is surprising that Walsh does not come in for more snide brickbats than a conversation Hoving cites with Getty , where the eccentric billionaire asks him if he would become the director of his museum . |