Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] average [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her fluency resulted in almost 100 books ; Flaubert 's entire output fits one volume no fatter than the average airport blockbuster . |
| 2 | This protection is paid for by chargepayers in areas which would otherwise have charges lower than the average rate bill per adult . |
| 3 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 4 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher |
| 5 | The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick . |
| 6 | Thus when , i.e. the polymer chain is larger than the average hole size , the viscosity will be correspondingly high , whereas when , the viscosity will be low . |
| 7 | These machines are chess-playing calculators ; even the weakest is better than the average chess player ( someone who plays at the median strength of all those who know the rules ) . |
| 8 | However , we found the machine could still be used for much more than the average heat gun . |
| 9 | All the platinum ever mined would fill no more than the average living room . |
| 10 | This figure is higher than the average sea level rise calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change because the east side of England is already slowly sinking due to geological movements . |
| 11 | So the very fact that she observes her price to be higher than the average price level she was originally expecting may make her adjust upwards her expected average price level . |
| 12 | THE SAFETY NET : In the first year of the new system ( 1990–1 ) an area safety net will protect areas in which the community charge ( on the Government 's assumption about spending would otherwise be more than £25 higher than the average rate bill per adult in 1989–1990 ( plus an allowance for inflation ) . |
| 13 | There is little doubt Brits are among the world 's most powerful boulderers , but put them on anything higher than an average cellar roof and they climb , with very few exceptions , like pumped , nervous and confused lemmings . |
| 14 | ‘ Guerillas In Tha Mist ’ is not a great album by Ice Cube 's standards , but it 's still stronger than the average hardcore LP . |
| 15 | In fact , for the UK the tax structure achieves progressivity ( a marginal tax rate greater than the average tax rate ) by having tax allowances and a wide band of income over which the marginal tax rate is a constant . |