Example sentences of "[adv] [det] than the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue .
2 With a proper programme of training , based on what we know from human athletes and extended by our own work , it should be possible to increase the performance of young horses much more than the empirical methods most trainers use . ’
3 Ami Pro 3.0 uses the mouse much more than the previous version .
4 We have increased expenditure on crime prevention and the police much more than the previous Labour Government , who cut it by 3 per cent .
5 The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done .
6 ‘ But I walk a fine line of ambiguity because I 'm also reaching a straight audience who need the education much more than the gay audience .
7 Firstly , most of the competing hypotheses scored sufficiently less than the correct hypothesis and so could be eliminated by forwards pruning from the search on acoustic grounds ( see Fig. 9.2 , point B ) , thus preventing the growth of an increasingly large band of hypotheses .
8 Last year GM 's turnover was $123.6bn ( £77bn ) — comfortably more than the gross domestic product of a good few developing countries .
9 As can be seen , the bond equivalent yield is always less than the simple equivalent yield because with the bond the first coupon payment can be reinvested , whereas this possibility is not available for a discount security , which therefore has to have a higher yield to compensate .
10 Since some proportion of interest recipients would not be liable for tax , the composite rate is always less than the standard rate .
11 It is , of course , vital to appreciate that the changes described occur at the expense of gain ; the closed-loop gain under negative feedback is always less than the open-loop gain .
12 In the case of the working class — possibly more than the middle class — the unemployment of families and the depressed economic conditions that prevailed during the inter-war years encouraged the reduction of family size , even though there were still many areas where the birth rate remained high or increased , almost oblivious of the economic conditions .
13 The Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania has about 800,000 members , slightly fewer than the Catholic community .
14 Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars .
15 This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal .
16 The 200 must be perceived as a refined car , if Rover is to justify charging slightly more than the going rate for its class .
17 The North African wild cat weighs only slightly more than the average moggie .
18 These figures show that the project cost slightly more than the estimated amount saved in Ipswich , and about £16,000 — £18,000 more in Newham ( where the amount spent on support workers was much higher ) .
19 The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on .
20 Growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) for 1990 was expected to be slightly less than the 9.2 per cent of 1989 .
21 The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year .
22 TI 's interim pre-tax profit for the six months to 30 June 1992 stood at £50.2m on a turnover of £471m , slightly less than the comparable 1991 figure ( £54.2m on a turnover of £441m ) .
23 ( The outcome was also less than the Soviet Union had hoped for .
24 This particular lie is engineered to create the impression of a finely-honed athlete who has temporarily lost his edge , which is a little less than the complete truth .
25 It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting .
26 This tended to affect the capital-intensive professions , such as medicine and engineering , in the form of regulation of capital spending and student numbers , rather more than the cheaper ones , but there have been direct or indirect consequences for fields such as nursing , teaching and social work as well .
27 As is usual in such cases her body trudged on obstinately , knowing that one foot hurt rather more than the other , but deciding not to admit this until some sort of objective was reached , while her mind , rejecting the situation in time and space , became disjointed and childish .
28 By 1982 , the state 's accumulated ‘ debt ’ with RENFE was rather more than the annual operating revenue ( RENFE 1984a : 45 ) .
29 To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age .
30 At least he seems likely to prosper rather more than the unfortunate Zola Budd .
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