Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] than the average [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average pensioner is 32% better off in real terms than the average pensioner in 1979 . |
| 2 | Your daughter does n't live extravagantly enough for it to be noticed that she has more money than the average student . |
| 3 | She slipped into a frock made of less tape than the average cassette . |
| 4 | She was carrying more rivets than the average U-Boat and would probably have turned a compass away from Magnetic North . |
| 5 | But , on average , people in the United Kingdom do not pay more tax than the average European . |
| 6 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
| 7 | Left : The contoured Virgo bath uses less water than the average bath . |
| 8 | For most of his career after discovering the similia principle , he was inundated with more patients than the average practitioner could have coped with . |
| 9 | I personally do n't believe that the average English citizen is any less proud of their own country than the average American . |
| 10 | In reality , Diana was given less training in her new job than the average supermarket checkout operator . |
| 11 | Robertson Nicoll , with his journalistic exuberance , boasted in 1902 that ‘ the average Dissenting minister has … a better literary and theological culture than the average minister of the Church [ of England ] ’ who were ‘ the worst educated [ ministry ] in this country ’ . |
| 12 | Detainees in police stations should have no more difficulty in obtaining therapeutic agents than the average citizen at home , and probably less , since the latter does not generally have a car and driver to collect his medicines from the local pharmacy . |
| 13 | Psychological studies have confirmed this : the more advanced students have much less aggressive personalities than the average person . |
| 14 | However , as you are leading a more active life than the average man , you need to take this into account when calculating your energy requirement . |