Example sentences of "[be] considerably [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was backed by the Brewers ' Association of Scotland , which said the real price increases on the pint across the bars of pubs would be considerably more than the Chancellor 's claimed increase of 1.5p per pint . |
| 2 | However , he stressed that the offer would have to be considerably more than the break-up value of the portfolio . |
| 3 | Dowty 's profits proved to be considerably less than the figures mentioned during the takeover , leading to suggestions that TI had been ‘ lumbered ’ with Dowty something TI furiously denies . |
| 4 | The budget for worldwide expenditure on exploration and development activities for 1993 will be considerably less than the £450 million spent in 1992 . |
| 5 | In recent years , it has been more common for songwriting members to allow the band 's non-songwriters to share in a percentage of their songwriting royalties. otherwise , the non-songwriting members of the band would be considerably poorer than the others . |
| 6 | By the time the breeding tubes are visible , the sexes are more readily distinguished , the female 's tube being considerably thicker than the male 's . |
| 7 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |
| 8 | Because , at this level , the floor of the extension is considerably higher than the floor of the main block , the master bedroom is reached from this landing via a flight of five stairs . |
| 9 | Category 2 includes the long-eared owl , Verreaux eagle owl , and the great grey owl , with total digestion percentages of 20–30 per cent , and this is considerably higher than the category 1 species . |
| 10 | Since about 35% of contacts at night are dealt with by telephone the amount of disturbance for individual doctors is considerably higher than the number of claims , and the stress created by night work is out of proportion with the small number of contacts with patients . |
| 11 | Also , the findings for the causal task indicate that even five-year-olds have some knowledge of the directional component of the causal connectives ' meaning , in that their mean score is considerably higher than the score ( of 8 ) which one would expect if they were simply responding at chance level . |
| 12 | The compensation package offered is usually based on a local salary , which , when converted into sterling , is considerably higher than the workers could earn in the UK . |
| 13 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 14 | It is also advantageous to be able to prepare sample fractions , whose homogeneity is considerably better than the parent polymer , especially when testing dilute solution theory . |
| 15 | The working capital outflow was controlled and was only er , sixteen million more working capital , which is considerably better than the year before and then finally you had the er , improvement in the capital expenditure . |
| 16 | The maximum depth of 230 m is considerably greater than the seas surrounding our shores , and of all British lakes , Loch Ness is second in depth only to Loch Morar , at 310 m . |
| 17 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 18 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |
| 19 | Many would say that a cult is considerably less than a minority . |
| 20 | The move will be particularly helpful to first time buyers , a Halifax spokesman said , and the impact could be far more wide ranging in Scotland , where the average price paid by a first-time buyers is considerably less than the £51,500 paid by their counterparts in south-east England . |
| 21 | The money is considerably less than the £12 million that BAS is reported to have requested and has raised fears that some research projects may be terminated . |
| 22 | This is considerably less than the numbers found in the animal equivalent , sarcoptic mange , where literally thousands of mites are to be found . |
| 23 | The grammatical tagset used by the Text710 ( appendix 3 ) is considerably smaller than the LOB tagset2 . |
| 24 | which is such that the proportion of people of the victim 's racial group who can comply is considerably smaller than the proportion of the people not of that group who can comply ; |
| 25 | Prosecution is thus reserved for the cases in which some unfair advantage has been taken of the girl , particularly where the girl is under 13 ( when lack of proper understanding is assumed ) , where the man is considerably older than the girl , where the man held some position of trust in relation to the girl , and where there is some element of deception involved . |
| 26 | Expansion in the service sector has been considerably smaller than the decline in manufacturing . |
| 27 | If you compare this modulus with the typical bulk modulus of a polymer — about 5 GPa — it is clear that the forces opposing extension , whether by bond stretching or bond bending , in any one chain are considerably greater than the forces which hold one chain to the next . |
| 28 | Temporary workers , as Table 2.9 shows , are considerably younger than the generality of workers . |
| 29 | Smaller than the great skua but a little larger than the Arctic , the most obvious features of the pomarine are the two central tail-feathers which are considerably longer than the rest . |
| 30 | This process leads to the accumulation of coarse grains on the crests of ridges , from which they are not removed , as they are considerably larger than the size the wind is able to move . |