Example sentences of "former than [art] " in BNC.

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1 We know much more about the former than the latter .
2 Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter .
3 That children also lingered in foster homes without any definite plan for their future care was taken seriously , but the indictment was levied more against the former than the latter .
4 On a scale of judicial independence the British courts would be somewhere between those of the United States and the former Soviet Union , but rather closer to the former than the latter .
5 The antibody for the Gly-extended intermediate showed detectable material in 20 of 44 tumours compared with seven normal samples and again concentrations were higher in the former than the latter ( p<0.001 , Wilcoxon ) ( Fig 4 ) .
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