Example sentences of "than the single " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 2 | There can be little doubt that , had Jack Alderson been with a more glamorous or more successful club , he would have gained many more International caps than the single honour awarded to him when he played for England against France in Paris on 10 May 1923 . |
| 3 | It would be easy to climb ; easier than the single rope that had got her here . |
| 4 | This approach does not solve the problem of continuity that depends on more than the single preceding node . |
| 5 | Although this Arrowana is relatively cheap when young , I would not recommend more than the single specimen in an aquarium of this size . |
| 6 | If , for example , as one moves up the elderly age range , the proportion of married to non-married decreases , and if married couples are in general better off than the single or widowed elderly , one would expect to find that average income would decline with age . |
| 7 | That pocket of life was plainly still some distance away , yet it was apparent to Jaq that the instrument was attempting to distinguish more than the single sharp blip that would represent Carnelian alone . |
| 8 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that the companies aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 9 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that they aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 10 | In the long run , of course , not only is this inefficient , but it costs more than the single , substantial investment . |
| 11 | The navy , greatly expanded under Henry VIII , required something more than the single clerk who had managed its affairs under the distant and often negligible supervision of the Lord Admiral . |
| 12 | It also enables him to produce a version of ‘ what is being talked about ’ , i.e. the topic of conversation , which is much more comprehensive , and certainly of greater analytic interest , than the single word-or-phrase-type title which is often used in a fairly trivial way to characterise ‘ topic ’ in the study of conversation . |
| 13 | Budgets in the public sector should serve a number of purposes rather than the single and rather narrow concept of compliance . |
| 14 | The first is that many important aspects of language processing occur in units that are larger than the single sentence . |
| 15 | As the restrictions arise in a two-equation model ( rather than the single equation we considered before ) , we now require a method of summarizing the variation in both equation errors so that we can compare an unrestricted with a restricted model . |
| 16 | This gives us a much more detailed picture of the potential well than the single Δν = 1 pure vibrational transition . |
| 17 | The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations for 1904 lists ‘ Stretford Bridge Junction Station ’ , suggesting something rather more grand than the single platform , without even a name board , that represented the sole facility for passengers here . |
| 18 | For example , a family of four occupying a semi-detached house may consume more local services than the single occupier next door , but would still pay the same rates . |
| 19 | Just as small groups of documents are often far more useful to the history teacher than the single source , so artefacts often yield their greatest potential when grouped together . |
| 20 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 21 | It should be noted that these drag coefficients are for Clios with door mirror on both sides — rather than the single door mirror used by certain other companies to produce flattering windtunnel figures . |
| 22 | Quite often when you 're looking at people 's handwriting , you can tell by the overall shape rather than the single features . |
| 23 | For the sequence T(AT) 8 CG(AT) 15 ( Figure 1b and 2b ) the ApT steps are cut much better than the single central GA site . |