Example sentences of "a [adj] than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence . |
| 2 | This , together with the addition of six big new unnamed customers and a lower than usual number of client losses , led to an 11% rise in turnover to £4.5m from the bureau and facilities management services division . |
| 3 | Many readers will be aware that because of a lower than expected settlement for the civil service in the Chancellor 's 1990 Autumn Statement , higher than expected inflation , and exchange rate effects on international subscriptions , SERC has announced that certain activities will have to be curtailed if the Council 's programme is to stay within its budget . |
| 4 | In this case a lower than expected use of English results from the secretary being required to rewrite the manager 's reports in English on the basis of notes . |
| 5 | On the night I turned up in my red leotard and dippy skirt with a heavier than usual coat of paint on , to find , to my horror , that Cleo Roccas of Kenny Everett fame and a young lady much featured on Page 3 , called Gilly , I think , were already up on the stage , surrounded by a sixty-strong swarm of Street of Shame photographers , all climbing up each other 's anoraks and screaming ‘ Lean forward , Cleo — a bit further , give us a smile , lick your lips , Gilly — lovely , lovely — hitch that skirt up a bit … ’ |
| 6 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 7 | FURTHER evidence that the economy may be edging out of recession came with yesterday 's publication of statistics that showed a bigger than expected pick-up in credit lending and a smaller than expected rise in the jobless total . |
| 8 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 9 | And when , just before dark , the Regent himself put in an appearance , with a larger than anticipated company , spirits rose further . |
| 10 | In certain instances , the length of your particular track may not coincide with a balanced pleating arrangement because of the pre-determined size of the pleats , thereby leaving a larger than usual space at one side of your curtain . |
| 11 | However , unscandalised as the people professed to be , a larger than usual number were prepared to buy the Sunday Times . |
| 12 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 13 | Nor did they think that Sri Lankans prosecuted a larger than normal proportion of true criminal cases because of their faith in the effectiveness of British justice . |
| 14 | Conversely , ‘ Portrait ’ AE sets a larger than normal lens aperture . |
| 15 | Yes , because we get a larger than average slice of what is available . |
| 16 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 17 | The current shortage of both the SE/30 and IIcx machines is quoted as being caused by a larger than expected take-up in the corporate market . |
| 18 | A thinner grip makes the club slightly more flexible and lighter , while a thicker than standard grip makes the shaft a little stiffer and heavier and the balance of the club is altered . |
| 19 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 20 | The fact that a large percentage of those visitors were British suggests there is a better than average chance that Graham Taylor 's England could be based there . |
| 21 | Such issues were not covered by policy , and these appeals tended to have a better than average chance of success ( 41 per cent as compared with an overall average of 31 per cent ) . |
| 22 | The deal also meant that Kylie could be given a better than average contract , he revealed in Business Review Weekly . |
| 23 | There was a better than average crowd watching us and a fair number were Press photographers who were intent on getting pictures of the unwitting discoverer of Froggy 's body . |
| 24 | It does appear that , in general , British new towns have a better than average safety record : a 1975 TRRL report suggests that the frequency of injury accidents in seven ‘ Mark One ’ new towns was about 20 per cent less than in other towns . |
| 25 | Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' blue-eyed boy , is still in the lead , despite a better than expected boost to George Bush 's campaign at the recent Republican convention . |
| 26 | It is impossible to tell which is earth and which is sky , though eastward what looks like a whiter than usual cloud must surely be snow on the fells of Furness . |
| 27 | Setting the action in the 1940s New York causes more of a linguistic than cultural problem . |
| 28 | As a result , a smaller than average audience was there to hear Bobby 's current band . |
| 29 | It has a smaller than average electorate but is unlikely to prevent former barrister Stuart Bell , who took over from long-serving Arthur Bottomley in 1983 , winning . |
| 30 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |