Example sentences of "than in [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context it is worth remembering that the late Middle Ages was a period of climatic deterioration , with lower temperatures and higher rainfull than in the thirteenth century and earlier . |
| 2 | Control of Parliament by the executive has never been more complete than in the twentieth century , with compliant MPs loyally following party policy . |
| 3 | Thus in the second half of the nineteenth century between 25 and 40 per cent of the members of the Swiss Federal Council consisted of entrepreneurs and rentiers ( 20–30 per cent of the Council members being the ‘ federal barons ’ who ran the banks , railways and industries ) , a rather larger percentage than in the twentieth century . |
| 4 | Though large families are less widespread in the twentieth century , the large family still remains vulnerable to poverty , if relatively less so than in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The role of the state was to be changed so that it would offer help in the last rather than in the first resort . |
| 6 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 7 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 8 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 9 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 10 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 11 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 12 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 13 | More so than in the first leg . |
| 14 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 15 | The entrance to the " opportunity garden " is less obvious than in the first drawing . |
| 16 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 17 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 18 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 19 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 20 | The use of English was thus significantly more restricted in the first generation than in the second generation , who had generally attended British schools and often had a native-like command of British English . |
| 21 | The OECD Economic Outlook indicated that the trade deficit in the USA stabilized at an annual rate $5,000 million lower than in the second half of 1988 . |
| 22 | Accelerated erosion was more widespread than in the second episode , reflecting extensive forest clearance by the Purépecha . |
| 23 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 24 | The level of failures in the construction industry , which accounted for 30 per cent of all failures , compared with 20 per cent in 1983 , was three times higher than in the third quarter of 1988 . |
| 25 | In summary , these are : i ) low-income countries will not lose so much in the way of earnings if their population is damaged by pollution , since wages are so low anyway ; ii ) under-populated countries in regions such as Africa are effectively " under-polluted " compared to urbanized areas such as Los Angeles or Mexico City — ideally , there should be a " world-welfare-enhancing trade in air pollution and waste " ; and iii ) environmental concern , on health and aesthetic grounds , is much more acute in high-income countries than in the third world , where direct alleviation of poverty is seen as more pressing . |
| 26 | No more so than in the 20th minute , when Steve Bruce rolled the ball back to him and from 25 yards he hit a low , left-foot shot through a crowd of players to give United the lead . |
| 27 | Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 . |
| 28 | Two contrasting features mark the relations between Rome and the Greek world during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. On the one hand commercial relations must have decreased because there were fewer Greek imports than in the sixth century . |
| 29 | This is nowhere more apparent than in the sixth quatrain : " Golden tongue " decently translates , but is purchased with a lame rhyme in " the shades among " . |
| 30 | At the time of writing , Lebanon is probably a little less hazardous than in the last year or so . |