Example sentences of "[adv] than a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 2 | In comparison , she herself would look little better than a sack of potatoes on horseback . |
| 3 | Much better than a line-out with them throwing-in on half-way . |
| 4 | A forty-year-old today looks a lot better than a forty-year-old of twenty years ago . ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , the ILEA , precisely because its schools operate in such widely differing circumstances , has published a ‘ league table ’ of 16-plus examination results adjusted for intake factors , which shows that schools with a disadvantaged intake can do relatively better than a school with an advantaged intake . |
| 6 | Oh , that is kind — much better than a visit from me . |
| 7 | Better than a view of cardboard panes and the next-door privies . |
| 8 | There 's nothing they 'd like better than a drama like this just before the race , and do n't think Dara or her escort will have kept their mouths shut ! ’ |
| 9 | Manager Chris Winter said : ‘ I think we 're doing better than a lot of other shops because customers can spend as little as £2 on a gift . |
| 10 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 11 | Jesus pushed himself off and floated rapidly around the Lift , bringing himself expertly to a stop less than a metre from the slight form of Christine LaFayette . |
| 12 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 13 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 14 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 15 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 16 | Losses of soil through erosion vary greatly : under closed forest it may be 2.55 t per ha per annum in Trinidad , less than a tonne in Java or 0.41 in French Guyana , while under secondary forest in Madagascar it was nil , but up to 9 t when cleared and cultivated . |
| 17 | On July 14 , less than a year since his accident , he played in a one-day pro-am and won with a 68 . |
| 18 | For it neatly encapsulates the state of public morale in Britain less than a year into the fourth consecutive Conservative term . |
| 19 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 20 | Airships are making a commercial comeback less than a year after Australian businessman Alan Bond 's Airship Industries crashed to earth with debts of £50 million . |
| 21 | But Marty had to learn his trade fast , since he began teaching guitar less than a year after starting to play himself ! |
| 22 | Here , less than a year after the ending of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the north-east , was a proper casus belli which was important to each side in the wider conflict . |
| 23 | Under the title Crime Knows No Boundaries the report was published on 19 January 1966 , less than a year after the inception of the policy group . |
| 24 | For , less than a year after that picture had been taken , Tony was dead and Lisa , six months pregnant , her life suddenly shattered , was on her own . |
| 25 | The decision , less than a year after Egypt 's readmission to the Arab League at the 1989 Casablanca summit [ see p. 36669 ] , followed intensive lobbying by Egyptian diplomats who claimed that in terms of the League 's founding charter , Cairo should be its permanent home , and refurbishing of the League 's former headquarters on the banks of the Nile was already well under way . |
| 26 | Mark , who has been blind from birth , has had a meteoric rise in radio broadcasting , being given his own show less than a year after joining Radio Cleveland as a reporter . |
| 27 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , confirmed in Inverness yesterday that elections for the single-tier authorities would take place less than a year after those due next year for the regional councils . |
| 28 | A bit more than a quarter on sweets and a bit less than a quarter on stationery . |
| 29 | In a sector where the income from sales of tickets represented less than a quarter of total expenditure , there was little else one could expect . |
| 30 | The books are quite short ( about 40,000 words , less than a quarter of the text of this present volume ) , but each has about 150 drawings and pictures . |