Example sentences of "worth [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitch was on top throughout and was probably worth better than the two-round winning margin given to him by Darlington referee Arnold Bryson . |
| 2 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 3 | Not if a month later their house is worth less than they paid . |
| 4 | I 've seen a bandage worth less than a penny and an inspector , he 'd go in and find one missing . |
| 5 | If you genuinely think that the property is worth less than the asking price , then make a lower offer . |
| 6 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 7 | But there can be no appeal on the grounds that a house is worth less than when it was valued . |
| 8 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 9 | THE Woolwich Building Society has two new plans to help people who can not move because their homes are now worth less than their mortgages . |
| 10 | Since these two tend to go hand in hand , anyone whose home is worth less than the mortgage on it , would welcome a little inflation . |
| 11 | The pound had NOT been devalued — it was just worth less than before , a line echoed by Mr Lamont in TV interviews . |
| 12 | It had to meet huge mortgage indemnity insurance claims from lenders of repossessed homes now worth less than was lent on them . |
| 13 | WITH prices now falling one per cent every three months , 1.6 million people could have homes worth less than their mortgages by the end of 1993 . |
| 14 | The application for an export licence was withdrawn as each leaf was now worth less than the limit of £35,000 , beyond which an export licence is required . |
| 15 | A character with Metallurgy will know of the adulteration , one with Numismatics will know the coins are worth less than face value . |
| 16 | She asked why women 's labour should be worth less than that of men . |
| 17 | As a result , nearly 2m home-buyers were stuck with houses worth less than their mortgages ( ie , with ‘ negative equity ’ ) . |
| 18 | A year of unhealthy life is considered to be worth less than 1 : the value is lower if the quality of life of the unhealthy person is worse . |
| 19 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 20 | The only evidence as to the value of Caliban was that it was worth less than the $2.5m. in fact paid . |
| 21 | Thus , the value of the firm is equal to the total value of its expected future stream of cash flows , discounted to take account of the ‘ time value of money ’ ( ’ a pound tomorrow is worth less than a pound today ’ ) and risk . |
| 22 | To hold the contrary , it has been well said , seems to assert ‘ that a bird in the hand is worth less than the same bird in the bush . ’ |
| 23 | None of your navel-lint , tit-licking pen-fuckers so infatuated with the twitchings of the ego they remain sublimely indifferent to the obscene fact that their words are worth less than the flies tormenting the eyelids of an African child . |
| 24 | Why has Transitional Relief Scheme been worth less than publicised ? — someone referred to an article in the Scotsman on this on 12 March 1993 . |
| 25 | The trust fund Chambers administered for her and the children was now worth less than half the thousands that had gone into it . |
| 26 | Discounting is based on the recognition that money received one year hence is worth less than money received today because of the income that could have been earned by investing the capital now . |
| 27 | This is less important than in a share sale where the difficulty of the purchaser , without an express damage statement , is to show that the shares are worth less than the purchaser paid for them , as a reduction in the assets or increase in the liabilities does not necessarily reduce the price of the shares . |
| 28 | They now live in a house worth less than the money they owe to the bank . |
| 29 | Even the Association headquarters was worth less than its mortgage . |
| 30 | Even the Association headquarters was worth less than its mortgage . |