Example sentences of "than [art] current " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment , stated that from April 1992 , 60% rather than the current 50% of Government housing finance will be allocated on a discretionary basis following civil servants ' assessment of councils ' performance . |
| 2 | They ought to have pocketed three points in the first half-hour but Tony Adams , a more threatening centre-forward on his forays than the current Alan Smith , missed the target with two headers and David Rocastle let Dave Beasant save a penalty , much as the stretch-version keeper had done for Wimbledon in the 1988 FA Cup final . |
| 3 | Seniors in Easton recommend a later starting age than the current 18 years , with one even suggesting a compulsory twelvemonth work experience to broaden the range of experience of recruits . |
| 4 | In 1980 the government raised various benefits , including those for the sick and the unemployed , by 5 per cent less than the current rate of inflation , though the abatement was restored in 1983 when the benefits were made subject to tax . |
| 5 | That would make match fishing from the beach into a farce and would be guaranteed to drive away competitors even more than the current poor fishing . |
| 6 | Audi 's new 100 makes its showroom debut in May at prices no more than four to five per cent higher than the current range . |
| 7 | They should also give everybody named in the report an opportunity to respond , rather than the current practice of approaching only those criticised . |
| 8 | The British sales rep might do even better out of this system than the current one — and grandees would do worse . |
| 9 | In 1956 , of course , the Conservative party was heading for one of the few post-war political events unequivocally more damaging to it than the current poll-tax furore — the Suez crisis . |
| 10 | But to clean exhaust gases further requires fuel with a much lower sulphur content than the current brew , plus some form of exhaust-mounted particulate trap or catalyst . |
| 11 | The new body is shorter , lower and wider than the current seven-year-old design . |
| 12 | Prime minister … chairman of British Rail … head of BBC Light Entertainment … well , who could n't do better than the current incumbents ? |
| 13 | The Ryan Report also recommended that annual returns should be filed within 14 days of the agm , rather than the current 60 days . |
| 14 | Lotus is also used for creating quality printed output ; its WYSIWYG capabilities enable it to produce better prints than the current version of Ark , so Carello exports the data to Lotus prior to printing . |
| 15 | The uniform , which we wore most of the time , was in my case obviously secondhand , being of an earlier model than the current one . |
| 16 | All we will have then is a patchwork of networks — some good , some not so good — and all no doubt charging even more than the current exorbitant fares . |
| 17 | The test kit is 20 per cent cheaper than the current method of confirming cancer and also saves on staff time . |
| 18 | Fit a larger size flex than the current demand requires to support heavy lampshades . |
| 19 | Taken over 10 years , it was equivalent to an annual rise of 7.5 per cent — nearly four per cent higher than the current inflation rate . |
| 20 | That is £150 less than the current summer rates and £70 off last year 's prices . |
| 21 | They 're not as big and not as yellow but likely to be more expensive than the current price of around 49p a pound . |
| 22 | It 's cheaper than eating here , and when you 're the next Nirvana , rather than the current one , every penny counts . |
| 23 | Most homes now have some form of lost insulation , as a result of Government campaigns and gradually improving Building Regulations , but in many cases it will be less than the current minimum requirement for new homes , of a 100mm thick layer of glass fibre or a similar insulant . |
| 24 | Daily newspaper Le Monde said the accord would cover co-operation in developing 16M-bit Flash memories rather than the current generation 4Ms . |
| 25 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 26 | Auspex recently struck up an OEM deal with IBM , which involves development of a new version of the machine using a Rios chip rather than the current Sparc . |
| 27 | No more than the current proof-print will be lost in the event of failure occurring during the proof-printing of single entries . |
| 28 | Investment expenditure I is also assumed to be exogenous in our model , with factors such as business confidence and the expectations of entrepreneurs being considered more important determinants of the level of investment than the current level of income . |
| 29 | Some people felt that what West Belfast needs is the development of an industrial base rather than the current proliferation of shopping centres . |
| 30 | ( It is less general than the current one . ) |