Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broader than all over Europe . |
| 2 | In December 1946 de Gaulle was further than ever from power , while the world was closer to war . |
| 3 | These administrative arrangements broke down some of the barriers in co-ordinating services , but grassroots co-operation has not appeared to be necessarily easier than elsewhere in Great Britain . |
| 4 | Last year real GNP grew by 8.5% , and inflation was only 3.4% , lower than anywhere in Asia except Japan and Malaysia . |
| 5 | Reports from Lebanon suggest that British hostages could be closer than ever to freedom . |
| 6 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 7 | bill is higher than elsewhere in relation to DSS payments . |
| 8 | She suspected that life must be harder than ever for Sarah , left on her own with a small son to bring up and a houseful of strangers to cater for , and she made a resolution to visit Sarah more often . |
| 9 | With these LM potencies she is feeling stronger than ever without aggravation and is currently taking 0/7 . |
| 10 | Now the country is opening its doors wider than ever to tourists . |
| 11 | Yet the physios have been busier than ever on tour . |