Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny rattled on , less from politeness than just to try and cover the terrible , wooden silence . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , consumers and businesses alike are , in the aggregate , deeper in debt than ever before . |
| 3 | There was no other way out of the building than through here , though the girls may have had a secret exit of their own , and this antechamber was guarded more fiercely by Nubenehem than ever a desert demon guarded its cave . |
| 4 | For all that , it is wise to know a little more about search than just that method , so here are a few relatively elaborate algorithms which are also sometimes useful . |
| 5 | He seeks less of his own company and moves more towards others than away from them . |
| 6 | In their black top hats and tailcoats they looked more like vultures than ever . |
| 7 | At some maintenance depots the establishment of specific sub-sector pools led to significant improvements to reliability , even though in many cases the locomotives concerned were travelling further from home than ever before . |
| 8 | ITN 's cash problems have come at a time when news is more in demand than ever |
| 9 | There 's more to Medau than just attending your local weekly class ! |
| 10 | More to Madness than just loony tunes |
| 11 | Yet there was more to Hastings than just kicking penalties . |
| 12 | ‘ There is more to fishing than just to fish ’ and how right he was . |
| 13 | over the past 10 years and that this country now exports more per head than even the Japanese ? |
| 14 | AS THE talk develops , the strikers reveal their belief that there is more at stake than just their rights . |
| 15 | Pre-adolescents appear to be more at risk than either younger or older children . |
| 16 | Mercury 's orbit is fairly eccentric , and therefore a tidal bulge would be acted on by the Sun a good deal more strongly near perihelion than elsewhere in the orbit . |
| 17 | The magnetopause is closest to Jupiter on the sunward side but never lies closer to Jupiter than about twice the distance of the orbit of the outermost Galilean satellite . |
| 18 | Much more attention was paid to the North American seacoast , where English colonies doubled in number and were treated more seriously by London than ever before . |