Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a young black male ( aged between twelve and fifteen ) is twenty-two times more likely to have a violent crime committed against him than an elderly white woman ( over 65 ) and seven times more likely to have something stolen from him . |
| 2 | Every American city had its multiplicity of freight stations , with more sidings , land , and staff lavished upon them than the greatest of the passenger terminals . |
| 3 | Thus , the Bill is of vital interest to those railways , and they are probably much more affected by it than the two earlier speeches have suggested . |
| 4 | It must always have been a real hope on Wilfrid 's part that a king of Northumbria from another branch of the royal family or from a noble line claiming royal descent would be more favourably disposed towards him than the descendants of Oswiu . |
| 5 | He was forty-seven , too old for military service yet young enough to feel that something more was required of him than the life he had hitherto led . |