Example sentences of "[adv] greater than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 2 | As a result total revenues would be lower in the industry in years of good harvest , and when there is a very poor harvest prices rocket through the roof because of the inelastic demand and therefore the change in price is much greater than the change in quantity er .. consumed on on the market . |
| 3 | As a result , my telephone and fax bill is much greater than the bill for board and lodging . |
| 4 | The biological effects of α-particles ( high linear energy transfer , LET ) are in general much greater than the effects of β-particles and γ-rays ( low LET ) . |
| 5 | Small , discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation , but when collected together , they can be much greater than the sum of their parts . |
| 6 | A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 7 | The high value of E/G in some materials such as carbon-fibre composites , highly oriented polymers or certain copolymers may mean that the decay length — is much greater than the length of the standard specimen . |
| 8 | It is tragic that this tradition has ended , because the joy of making music is so much greater than the joy of just listening . |
| 9 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 10 | And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death . |
| 11 | Is it thus greater than the sum of the individual parts ? |
| 12 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 13 | One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself . |
| 14 | In other words , managers ' salaries have to be made incentive-compatible , so that the penalty for sending a false ‘ good ’ signal is always greater than the penalty for sending a true ‘ bad ’ signal . |
| 15 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 16 | Far greater than the teaching of any great religious leader ! |
| 17 | If you prefer the individual icons to be displayed but there is not enough room on screen , remember that the Windows desktop is far greater than the size of the screen . |
| 18 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 19 | The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy . |
| 20 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 21 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |
| 22 | At the same time by increasing their expenditure programmes at a rate far greater than the growth in tax revenue they have been led into creating inflation . |
| 23 | The costs of treating Richard in this fashion were far greater than the gains to be made from keeping him in suspense about his future . |
| 24 | And we see in this little story something far , far greater than the redemption of Elimelech for Ruth and Naomi we see here a picture of your redemption and of my redemption and those three qualifications , how they are met . |
| 25 | Glaxo rightly points out that Astra used very high levels of ranitidine , several hundred times the normal human intake and far greater than the doses of omeprazole Astra fed to rats . |
| 26 | While the numbers affected by these disincentives are far greater than the membership of the underclass , the underclass is the most severely affected . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom is far greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 28 | It is important to emphasise that the impact of the Teacher Placement Service is far greater than the sum of teachers taking placement , as evaluative returns and case study evidence consistently point to the experience as a stimulus for change and the development of partnership activities . |
| 29 | Talking to women who have been there , or face the possibility of being sent there , you find that the fear of being put in the specials is far greater than the fear of imprisonment . |
| 30 | But there is more to the difficulty than this : the width of the belt of incised meanders in the limestone is often greater than the width of the floodplain in the clay . |