Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] than a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 2 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 3 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 4 | It has 11mm specification but is little heavier than a 9mm . |
| 5 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 6 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 7 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 8 | It 's less common than a beef tapeworm , but more dangerous , because its larvae will settle into almost any part of the body , including eyes . |
| 9 | Now we 've got a company secretary he is er , an F C I S Chartered Institute Secretaries that 's much better than a chartered accountant , they 're no damn good as secretaries , right ! |
| 10 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 11 | Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas . |
| 12 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |
| 13 | of course If the forecaster has merely averaged out considerable fluctuations to give an overall steady state that is less useful than a genuine steady state . |
| 14 | A reverberant place such as a church , empty hall or tiled kitchen is less easy than a room with some sound-absorbent furnishings , such as heavy curtains and thick carpet . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence … |
| 16 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 17 | Often , to have a solid example in front of you is less daunting than a drawing . |
| 18 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 19 | The massacre of the Alamo is less audience-grabbing than a Vietnam village scorched in napalm . |
| 20 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 21 | The match angler 's fixed link-leger is less sensitive than a fixed paternoster as can be appreciated by studying Fig. 1 . |
| 22 | In the first place , its content is less up-to-date than a more recent book on the same subject . |
| 23 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 24 | By the late 1960s , the new social patterns , technologies and musical styles had been substantially assimilated into a reorganized music-industrial system : a transnational oligopoly of vast entertainment corporations , supplied to some extent by ‘ independent ’ producers ; serviced by mass audience radio and TV channels ( with some ‘ minority ’ shows and channels ) , by a symbiotically pliant music press and by related leisure-products businesses ; and directing itself at a series of separate audiences whose distinctness is less subcultural than a creature of market researchers ' consumer profiles . |
| 25 | It is much worse than a judge at Cruft 's checking over the points of a Pomeranian or Pekinese , and you are more likely to be bitten . |
| 26 | If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition . |
| 27 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 28 | I 'm afraid you 'll find that a volunteer force is much better than a pressed one . |
| 29 | Without question , a gazelle in a herd is much safer than a gazelle by itself . |
| 30 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |