Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) are destroying atmospheric ozone over the Arctic as well as the Antarctic , with the extent of damage greater than previously suspected , according to Dr Michael Proffitt and colleagues at Colorado University . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , unless the transaction is a management buy-in , for which it is appropriate to ask for a full set of warranties , a reasonable compromise is for the vendor to give the purchaser a set of warranties shorter than normally appropriate on a share sale . |
| 3 | In order to help people with moderate savings ( principally pensioners ) , Major announced that certain means-tested social security benefits would be available to those with a level of savings higher than hitherto . |
| 4 | Dating baked clay and burnt stone are perhaps the most interesting archaeological applications of TL , because these — in particular burnt flint — allow the dating of sites older than about ten thousand years , when the first pottery began to appear . |
| 5 | Methods of service other than there listed above may not be used . |
| 6 | Paradoxically , the only way to achieve ‘ very large-scale integrations ’ or a true ‘ computer on a chip ’ will be to make components an order of magnitude smaller than today 's chips . |
| 7 | However , when ED is 200 cm -1 , the ratio is 0·34 ; therefore a sample of a compound with a vibration of frequency lower than about 300 cm -1 has a significant proportion of its molecules in vibrationally excited states . |
| 8 | And the other thing is that it 's er a wide syllabus is fine as long as you 're not expected to go in any depth , but you 're expected to go sort of both , a broad syllabus and into a little bit of depth more than perhaps erm I mean in effect I mean you 're not far off of covering A level psychology at this at tha the level we 're going to . |
| 9 | Or they may even spend a good sum of money on refurbishing a suite of rooms with no apparent requirement of reward other than perhaps the naming of the rooms in acknowledgement . |
| 10 | Yes , I think really it 's a er , faulty gene in the system and no matter how men hate women , the majority of men really like women other than perhaps envy , or jealousy , or women earning more than their husbands and throwing it back in them , in their face , but the main subject , the main point to me is , there is a faulty ge gene in their system and there 's no way you will eradicate that ! |
| 11 | In my fear and confusion , I turn left instead of right , however , and drive deeper into South Central than before . |
| 12 | Molecular hydrogen is rather fragile ( in interstellar terms ) , and is destroyed by shock waves with velocities greater than about 50 km s -1 and can not exist behind the leading shock . |
| 13 | In a very real sense , the SD Ribbon is what you make of it , and should be shortlisted , subject to the remarks made above , by those with ( or contemplating purchasing ) a high performance system costing in excess of £4000 or so , and with rooms larger than about 4 x 3 meters . |
| 14 | ‘ It is incredible that he made the mis-statement about Ohio other than wittingly and dishonestly . ’ |
| 15 | More than one strip may be attached to the column if the shielding needs to be extended in directions other than anteriorly of the column . |
| 16 | The success of this initiative came to be measured in terms other than purely personal achievement on the part of numbers of blacks learning to read and write . |
| 17 | ( Note that in extreme cases V will even rise to levels higher than before . |
| 18 | There is little to see of the Potteries at Fenton other than relatively modern factories , but a couple of bottle ovens , now rather rare ( see Longton ) survive near King Street . |
| 19 | At latitudes greater than about 40° the banding is less clear , and in the polar regions it is replaced by smaller-scale cellular features . |
| 20 | At wavelengths shorter than about 104 nanometres , there are no materials suitable for use as windows to transmit the radiation into the vacuum chamber . |
| 21 | At depths greater than about 100 km the wave speeds are rather uncertain . |