Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adv] than [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time the general level of wealth in this unremarkable corner of the East Midlands , peopled entirely by peasant farmers , with a leavening of yeomen and only a handful of rich squires , was lower only than on the fertile cornlands of Norfolk and in the opulent Stour Valley manufacturing district — higher not only than in other , similar regions but also Berkshire , which the yield of the loans , 1522 — 3 , placed fifth jointly with Suffolk , and Gloucestershire which shared fourteenth place with Rutland itself . |
| 2 | Many animals are lighter underneath than on the back , or ‘ counter-shaded ’ . |
| 3 | We are much clearer now than at the beginning about how to approach science in a more girl friendly way ( see Smail , 1983 , 1984 ) , and the clarity is due in part to the way we have worked with teachers . |
| 4 | The wider range of styles prompts five vocalists ; Souzay is the least satisfactory , sounding woolier here than on the Fauré set , but again , his intuitive style more than makes amends . |
| 5 | If the cross-section happens to be smaller at a certain place , then the forces are larger there than at the neighbouring cross-sections , so the beam will be further constricted , etc. , leading to the so-called sausage instability ( Fig. 3.3(a) ) . |
| 6 | I t was colder inside than in the open air . |
| 7 | The weight of the gun in his jacket pocket and the night air , thicker here than in the city centre , it was further from the ocean , you sometimes felt you could n't breathe until you found your way to the end of the land . |
| 8 | Perhaps they 're cheaper here than in the States . ’ |
| 9 | If that is so , presumably costs to industry will be that much lower here than in the rest of Europe , so there will not be equal competition with enterprises in the other 11 nations of the European Community . |
| 10 | The lack of vitamins in the British and Scottish diets , in particular , may explain why the incidence of heart disease is higher here than in the Mediterranean areas where blood cholesterol levels may be as high , but there is much less heart disease . |
| 11 | ‘ Unemployment is higher in Scotland than in Germany and I think it 's a lot worse here than in the rest of Britain . ’ |
| 12 | Is not it higher today than throughout the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s ? |
| 13 | This means that , where the investor 's marginal rate of income tax is higher abroad than in the UK , he will not be liable to additional income tax in the UK , but nevertheless will suffer a higher tax burden on an overseas investment than with a comparable UK investment . |
| 14 | The academics had earlier studied chapter 11 between 1978 and 1984 ; the amounts gained by shareholders at the expense of senior creditors were even higher then than in the more recent cases . |
| 15 | And while the White House has publicly dismissed anti-war demonstrators as well-meaning but ‘ misguided individuals ’ , off the record , some presidential advisers reportedly consider the anti-war movement a danger to be dealt with , noting that ‘ its membership is mainstream and 100 times stronger now than at the beginning of Vietnam . ’ |
| 16 | At this time of day it was cooler outside than in the airless rooms of the club . |
| 17 | The early autumn is the time to be in the Basque country , because it is usually drier then than in the summer , but still blessedly warm , and wonderfully ‘ luminous ’ as the French like to put it . |