Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I mean longer ago than that .
2	I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic .
3	But , in any case , I should have realized that a review of high seriousness like The Criterion , the circulation of which never reached 1,000 copies and I suspect hardly more than 500 , was supported by an intellectual minority whose allegiance did not wane on account of the neglect of a man of whom many may not have heard .
4	" I drive rather faster than these upright commercial gentlemen .
5	On the eve of the opening of the new season I arrive much earlier than necessary , even though I can not begin fishing until midnight .
6	‘ I feel safer here than anywhere , ’ Mrs Bennet said , ‘ and more comfortable . ’
7	The line I use more often than not is 3lb b.s. , but I would not recommend this to anglers with no experience of long-range legering .
8	Er I think far more than they do now .
9	‘ My dad says I work much harder than he did , ’ she said .
10	In fact some of them kill even better than they die .
11	One you trust more easily than you find you can trust me ? ’
12	But if you 've got any more questions , I mean do n't hesitate to come back , because at the end of the day I 'd rather you know too much than not enough
13	yeah , you get a subsidized grant for going to London , yeah , so you get like more than normal
14	If you go much faster than that it gets windy very quickly , although the heater can still turn the cabin into blast furnace .
15	At some point the size of the enterprise may dictate that you think commercially rather than in terms of self-reliance .
16	If people can see that you know your job , that you work probably harder than they do , that you communicate with them and tell them what you 're doing , they will respect you .
17	And that 's why your idea that I think it does have to be a very gradual process where we learn to trust each other , we learn to live by our decisions that we make together rather than separate decisions .
18	‘ I am determined that we build solidly rather than build fast . ’
19	We listen more quickly than we speak , and when we can anticipate what is coming next then we switch off .
20	As we consume little more than 10 litres of wine per person per year , Britons can hardly claim to be a ‘ wine-drinking nation ’ .
21	MIX and Max with Mel and you could be on to a video winner as we give away more than £2,500worth of Gibson tapes .
22	We assume once more than unc have dominant moduli , any eigenvalues of greater moduli having been removed by deflation etc .
23	Consequently , what we get more often than not is a textureless meat with a slightly sweet taste and a gummy quality that makes stick in your teeth .
24	And we heal farther past than we can see ;
25	When we begin to take the law into our own hands we become little better than those individuals who vandalise our homes and mug old ladies .
26	We live much longer than we did .
27	Anxiety made her speak more sharply than she had intended ; she was not looking forward to telling Madame Gebrec just why Officer Hassan was about to pay her another visit and it was a relief when Madame Delon answered her call .
28	The frescoes allow more scope , but even they show little more than one event at a time .
29	Between them they earn slightly more than £14,000 .
30	The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward .

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