Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Average desired or intended family size is rather higher than the family size implicit in birth-rates since the 1970s . |
| 2 | Although that , the country is still well in the red , the latest deficit , as I mentioned earlier is rather better than the trade gap that was reported in July . |
| 3 | There was a pause then Mair said quietly : ‘ Alzheimer 's is rather more than an inconvenience . |
| 4 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 5 | The software , called Multimedia Interactive Control ( MIC ) , is rather more than an authoring tool . |
| 6 | To have produced one important poem is rather more than the vast majority of poets could claim in any age . |
| 7 | Remember that the insurance valuation is not the amount paid for the rug , but the amount that would probably be required to replace it and , in practice , is rather more than the price originally paid . |
| 8 | This is rather more than the summary that appears in the prelims . |
| 9 | Sadly , the sort of quality that can be achieved from such bit mapped graphics is rather less than the advertisements might lead you to believe , especially when it comes to enlarging or reducing them and printing them out at high resolution . |
| 10 | The only difference is that the slope of the worst case is rather steeper than the slope of the best . |
| 11 | And the sort of payback , as it were , if you are lucky , is rather larger than the payback , say , in horse racing ? |
| 12 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 13 | The highest Software Performance Report ( SPR ) identifier specified ( using option 3.6.2 — Prepare Listings Of All SPRs ) is numerically smaller than the lowest SPR identifier . |
| 14 | The highest Software Status Report ( SSR ) identifier specified ( using option 4.6.2 — Prepare Listings Of All SSRs ) is numerically smaller than the lowest SSR identifier . |
| 15 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 16 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 17 | It has 11mm specification but is little heavier than a 9mm . |
| 18 | At times the road is little better than a forestry track . |
| 19 | Although having a B classification , it is little better than a country lane , yet , despite some sudden halts and reversings and generally slow progress , is a delight to follow . |
| 20 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 21 | Moreover , if she were to enforce a purely nationalist policy in respect of nuclear matters in Scotland , that could have consequences that she would regret — because the quantity of Scottish fuel reprocessed at Sellafield is vastly greater than the amount of overseas fuel brought to Dounreay . |
| 22 | This writer would certainly have preferred the option for moving everything out of the main glen , but the fact that the centre is now seen as being a mistake is encouraging and the partial solution is vastly better than the centre being a rapidly-growing monster . |
| 23 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 24 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 25 | This area — which throughout , is somewhat lower than the original ground-floor level ( necessarily retained in the entrance hall ) — accommodates three bedrooms . |
| 26 | In our patients stone recurrence was 5.7% at one year which is somewhat lower than the recurrence rate observed by the Munich group : 11% at one year and 15% at two years . |
| 27 | Turning to the sex of known opioid users , the 3.6:1 male to female ratio found for Wirral opioid users is somewhat higher than the 2.7:1 ratio found for problem drug users ( mostly heroin users ) in both Brighton and South Tyneside , and the 2:1 ratio reported for opioid users in both Bristol and Leeds . |
| 28 | You will notice it is a yellow card also er it is somewhat larger than the other one which was flaunted earlier before us and the good news is that you 've got , each one of you , a copy of this in your cubbyholes . |
| 29 | The effective stiffness must then be chosen according to the expected amplitude of the rotor displacement , as shown in Fig. 3.3 in which the stiffness for small loads ( up to 0–15 TPK ) is appreciably higher than the effective stiffness for larger loads ( 0–8TPK ) . |
| 30 | If the right hemisphere is merely slower than the left on this task , then the more matches that have to be made the greater the relative right hemispheric disadvantage should be . |