Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | It is important to remember that Britain fared less badly than the USA and some of its Continental neighbours , and that even adjusted for unemployment , real wages continued to increase on average until the early 1930s ( figure 4.2 , see Dimsdale 1984 ) . |
2 | Despite all their expectations ( and ample campaign funds ) they did not do much better than the GCP in 1954 . |
3 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
4 | There were families and organisations out there which had sworn to kill him far less cleanly than the KGB would , and he had learned to live with that . |
5 | It is even more important now as a recent environmental report said Britain 's woods are disappearing much faster than the Amazon rain forests . |
6 | But there are most definitely critics , none more so than the BBC 's Peter Estell . |
7 | None more so than the BBC 's heavy-handed interference with " Willie — the Legion Hall Bombing " , a play by Caryl Churchill . |
8 | The new public management has wrought profound changes in the culture of public agencies , none more so than the NHS . |
9 | And , while I was not in possession of definite proof , my money was on it coming from somewhere a little further away than the Fulham Palace Road . |
10 | Triangulum is graced by the presence of the spiral galaxy M33 , a member of the Local Group , at a distance of 2300000 light-years — only slightly further away than the Andromeda Spiral . |
11 | The UK evidence ( Labour Research Department , 1987 ) confirms the view that outward investment by home-based manufacturing concerns has concentrated not in the Third World but in North America and western Europe ( rather than the Commonwealth ) ; it is the wish to have a stake in economies that are growing more rapidly than the UK which is the key factor in company decision-making . |
12 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
13 | As I sipped my coffee , I reflected once more than the Midland Irish were very like the English of the 1950s . |
14 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
15 | This is another CD to offer alternative takes , although far more moderately than the Savoys , and which provides yet more insight into the fascinating process of invention , modification and progression within a jazz recording session . |
16 | ‘ Nothing could illustrate this more clearly than the Whatley Quarry , already one of the biggest holes in Europe , in the heart of the lovely Mendip Hills . ’ |
17 | But while the French did not feel encouraged to emigrate in large numbers , the 50,000 inhabitants of New France moved inland much more boldly than the Abbé Prevost might have made one expect . |
18 | Although certain other lines had their own Royal vehicles and carried our own and foreign Royalty more frequently than the LNWR , it was in the main the Wolverton LNWR and later LMSR train that carried the Royal family on long railway journeys . |
19 | The Lords does much good work , contains many wise men and women , and acts more disinterestedly than the Commons . |
20 | As the next chapter shows , the subsequent oil price rises were also to hit Germany and Japan much more heavily than the United States . |
21 | On the one hand there was no group of Yugoslavs to whom the phrasing of Robertson 's order applied more completely than the Croat Ustachi , Domobranci and regular troops under German Army Group E , who at the time were approaching the Austrian border , armed and in very large numbers . |
22 | However , with the main continental European economies unlikely to grow any faster than the UK over the next year or so , exports are not going to be a powerful recovery force for the economy or corporate earnings through 1993 . |
23 | Thereafter , print quality was as good as any inkjet I 've seen — right up with the BJ-200 and slightly better than the DeskJet 500 . |
24 | And the plane 's going slightly faster than the Hercules or Andover . |
25 | Muldoon spun the line that the deteriorating situation in Turkey was clearly more important right now than the EPC meeting . |
26 | Phil said : ‘ Recent monitoring shows that a further gradual improvement is taking place , with the level for 1990 recorded at 0.2 ppm — substantially better than the EC standard of 0.3 . |
27 | But the 5ft 9ins open-side is bitter his pace and all-action game seem destined to take his ambitions no further than the England B side , for whom he excelled in New Zealand this summer . |
28 | With all of the GDR 's western frontier open , the Wall is the most convenient crossing point only for those who want to go no further than the Kurfurstendamm . |
29 | In other words Cornwall 's electorate , three hundred and seventy two thousand , is actually more than the Highlands and the Islands and virtually the same as for Northern Ireland seats and for the West Wales seat . |