Example sentences of "be [adj -er] than [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer )
2 The payments on a lease will normally be lower than on a contract allowing for the purchase of the asset , although sometimes the difference is small and then a rebate is made when the term of the contract finishes and the plane is sold .
3 It has been suggested ; that this creates a system of judicial zoning , in the sense that the law recognises that in one particular area , near an industrial estate for example or in a rural community , certain odours are to be expected and the standard adopted will as a result be lower than in a purely residential area where odour pollution of the air is not expected .
4 A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different .
5 What can be easier than for a manufacturer to limit his sales to those members of the public who fulfil the qualification of being this or doing that ?
6 The reason has to do with the track width on the 1.2MB drive being narrower than on a 360K disk , and the failure of the latter 's drive heads to read from such a narrow track .
7 Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location .
8 The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice .
9 The noise is louder than at a dog track .
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