Example sentences of "[det] than the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other three more closely fit the latter than the former model : Mrs Mitchell 's daughter wanted her mother admitted permanently to the local psychiatric hospital ( knowing that she would not be eligible for residential care because of the severity of her condition ) ; but she also added — ‘ not that I do n't want her at home too — I love my mother — it 's just that the strain is too much for me ’ . |
| 2 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 3 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |
| 4 | The first day 's publication of the photos produced an incredible increase in sales of 482,118 more than the same day the week before . |
| 5 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 6 | Cars such as the Vauxhall Cavalier SRi , Rover 416 GSi and Ford Sierra 2.0i Ghia are worth little more than the same model with a lower spec . |
| 7 | Lot 45 ( est. $20–25,000 ) a Tiffany mixed-metals pitcher , with copper and mokume gourds , brought a strong $37,000 , eleven thousand more than the same model brought at Christie 's last January . |
| 8 | To hold the contrary , it has been well said , seems to assert ‘ that a bird in the hand is worth less than the same bird in the bush . ’ |
| 9 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |