Example sentences of "[adv] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the preceding birth interval is five ( in some cases even four ) years or longer , the chances of surviving infancy become poorer again , though considerably better than in the case of short spaced infants ( less than two years ) . |
| 2 | Mr Oliver says he will market the rink better than in the past |
| 3 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 4 | The combination of high unemployment and the unprecedented unwillingness of some at least of the unemployed to accept their fate passively , demonstrated more starkly than before the absence of systematic public provision fur the unemployed . |
| 5 | This , and the growing trend in American society to express displeasure more vociferously and outspokenly than in the past , is said to lie at the root of recent player-directed violence ( ibid.:204–5 ) . |
| 6 | Yet their fate is a lesson for others , none more so than for the Palestinians . |
| 7 | The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber . |
| 8 | Pious shock and horror was expressed at this frailty in the face of temptation — far more so than at the evidence that men behaved in the same way . |
| 9 | And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams . |
| 10 | The Prince and Princess had both been on particularly good form throughout that Gulf tour , and were reduced to giggles on several occasions , none more so than during a desert picnic . |
| 11 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 12 | Never more so than in the case of those which are sick and injured , including wild animals . |
| 13 | As always with Mussorgsky , and never more so than in the case of this opera , the issues are complicated ; and though most of the work 's admirer 's would now agree that Shostakovich 's orchestration is closer to the spirit of a composer he deeply admired than that of Rimsky-Korsakov , whose admiration led him to wish to ‘ sell ’ the work in the West , there are reservations to be made . |
| 14 | This is clearly very much open to the critique based upon renegotiation-proofness , even more so than in the case without uncertainty . |
| 15 | For unlike serf insurrection , slave rebellion was relatively uncommon — nowhere more so than in the United States — and never in the nineteenth century considered a very serious political threat . |
| 16 | The acoustics of the hall seem admirably suited to this music ; textures are warm , yet detail is clear , more so than in the Järvi Chandos series , and the sound overall is fuller and obviously more modern than that of the Kertész/Decca set , where the symphonies ( CD 430 046–2DC6 , 4/92 ) are not available separately . |
| 17 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 18 | In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US . |
| 19 | And you have to be updated periodically , more so than in the past . |
| 20 | In no field of human endeavour was this more so than in the advancement of knowledge , in ‘ science ’ . |
| 21 | Nowhere more so than in the rape scene itself , which , in marked contrast to the humiliation of Lipstick , makes the men the object of spectacle , focusing on their behaviour , not Sarah 's suffering . |
| 22 | We are in a decade when the timeless truth of John Wesley 's words is apparent , and nowhere more so than in the realm of church planting . |
| 23 | The two Education Acts of 1986 and 1988 brought about some revolutionary changes in education — nowhere more so than in the role of governing bodies . |
| 24 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 25 | Satan did walk Scotland and no more so than in the chambers and corridors of Edinburgh Castle . |
| 26 | The same people , however , demanded a high standard from public works and nowhere more so than in the domain of street lighting . |
| 27 | Nowhere is this more so than in the sub-division of crime fiction that I have labelled the " crime novel " . |
| 28 | If we compare the two slopes then the line from circle centre to circle centre has a slope of 27.789 degrees whilst that from the Ogbourne centre to Bishops Cannings church is 27.74 degrees , less than of a degree of arc . |
| 29 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 30 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |