Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the recovery fails to materialise , the deficit in 1993-94 could be even greater than the £50 billion forecast , and the Chancellor will either have to slash welfare spending in November or put taxes up even further , risking a vicious circle of rising taxes , depleted spending power and slower growth , or borrow more which inevitably will mean putting interest rates back up . |
| 2 | Other than the s 92 remedy , it may be possible for the minority shareholder to petition the court under s 459 , CA1985 alleging ‘ unfair prejudice ’ . |
| 3 | The Brink's-Mat trials left Britain 's taxpayers with a bill bigger than the £26 million robbery haul . |
| 4 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 5 | The fee for this type of work would again be based on time taken plus outlays , but , since it is a detailed survey , it will be more costly than the Type 1 search described above . |
| 6 | The fee for this type of work would again be based on time taken plus outlays , but , since it is a detailed survey , it will be more costly than the Type 1 search described above . |
| 7 | However , there are predictions that he will be able to announce a lower out-turn on borrowing this year than the £7 billion forecast . |
| 8 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 9 | He approached the cash till with the supreme confidence of a man who has paid a cheque into his account more than the requisite three working days in advance . |
| 10 | The gap was less than the £1 billion deficit which most experts had feared . |
| 11 | It says that without building on existing community services , residential care will expand even faster than the £1 billion growth in the 1980s , as measured by social security costs . |
| 12 | Longer , higher and wider than the old R25 , the more rounded Safrane is 148mm ( 5.8ins ) shorter than the Rover 800 fastback but , at 1818mm between doors , is nearly an inch wider than the Citroen XM . |
| 13 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 14 | Whatever the urgency , setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid . |
| 15 | This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above . |
| 16 | It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place . |
| 17 | Although the Type 22 frigate is substantially longer than a Type 42 destroyer , it carries neither the sea Dart long-range anti-aircraft missile nor the Vickers Mk 8 gun . |
| 18 | The System 15000 , due for delivery by the end of the year , will sell at around £10,000 more than a base 10000 system . |
| 19 | In essence it becomes a matrix of connected businesses that normally have much weaker direction from the corporate centre than a Stage 2 company . |