Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average desired or intended family size is rather higher than the family size implicit in birth-rates since the 1970s . |
| 2 | Although that , the country is still well in the red , the latest deficit , as I mentioned earlier is rather better than the trade gap that was reported in July . |
| 3 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 4 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 5 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 6 | To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age . |
| 7 | Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid . |
| 8 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 9 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |
| 10 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 11 | And the sort of payback , as it were , if you are lucky , is rather larger than the payback , say , in horse racing ? |
| 12 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 13 | The highest Software Performance Report ( SPR ) identifier specified ( using option 3.6.2 — Prepare Listings Of All SPRs ) is numerically smaller than the lowest SPR identifier . |
| 14 | The highest Software Status Report ( SSR ) identifier specified ( using option 4.6.2 — Prepare Listings Of All SSRs ) is numerically smaller than the lowest SSR identifier . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It has 11mm specification but is little heavier than a 9mm . |
| 19 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now that is to paint a far wider duty than I had been er er er thought and indeed er those who follow these matters have suggested that 's rather wider than the than the er secondary legislation here before us actually provides for . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Moreover , if she were to enforce a purely nationalist policy in respect of nuclear matters in Scotland , that could have consequences that she would regret — because the quantity of Scottish fuel reprocessed at Sellafield is vastly greater than the amount of overseas fuel brought to Dounreay . |
| 24 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 25 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 26 | It 's less dangerous than the often-fatal Hepatitis B , but it can last up to four weeks , while full recovery may take three months . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It 's less formal than the consulting-room . ’ |
| 29 | And indeed , in efforts to des to also confirm our reasonableness in the figure that we 've put forward , despite the fact that it 's much higher than the counties , I have included in my submission , paragraph thirty nine , that there are a number of factors we could have taken into account , but have n't have chosen not to do so , er which would have in fact upped the dwelling requirement . |
| 30 | He 's much taller than the woman , and she sort of hangs from his neck when they kiss , stretching up on tiptoe to reach him . |