Example sentences of "[n mass] than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This obviously allows speedier movement of blocks of data than a programmed loop containing a single-word move instruction ( or a load and store pair ) . |
| 2 | The office was more like an army headquarters than a theatrical business as every day Girls would be transported somewhere at home or abroad . |
| 3 | After the outbreak of the revolution in December 1989 , the press thought that they had caught an even bigger fellow-travelling fish than the old Dean of Canterbury . |
| 4 | We have indications that black people have , over the past 30 years , become more present in the criminal statistics than the previous generation , reaching a level with , and in some categories , exceeding the indigenous population . |
| 5 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 6 | Is the debate about reducing waiting lists less relevant to the medical care needs of older people than the younger age groups ? |
| 7 | NOTHING more clearly illustrates how out of step the politicians are with the people than the latest survey on Europe . |
| 8 | There 's only one thing less attractive to the media than an angry woman . |
| 9 | There are some really weird contraptions which have more levers , joints , and other paraphernalia than a Swiss watch . |
| 10 | Scotland and Wales , and the North , North West , Yorkshire and Humberside , West Midlands , East Midlands and East Anglia regions of England have a lower percentage of their population in classes I , II and III(N) and a higher percentage in III(M) , IV and V than Great Britain as a whole , whereas the South West and especially the South East have a higher percentage in I , II and III(N) and a lower percentage in III(M) , IV and V than the British average . |