Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Union Jack was fluttering proudly more than 29,000 feet above sea level , planted there by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay three days previously on May 30 . |
| 2 | The 1960s witnessed a downturn in economic performance and a growing realization that , in comparative terms , Britain was faring less well than many of her continental neighbors . |
| 3 | It claimed that Ms Oruene had failed to show she was treated less favourably than any other candidate and that there was not a shred of evidence to show that it had deviated from normal procedures . |
| 4 | As a result , by the end of the seventeenth century popular Anglicanism was enmeshed more closely than ever within the social fabric of the English countryside . |
| 5 | It was recognized more clearly than before that most large companies actually held a portfolio of businesses , and that long-term growth , or indeed survival , might depend more on managing that portfolio rather than assuming continued growth on all fronts . |
| 6 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |
| 7 | The markets became empty and what food was left in Paris was prized more highly than gold . |
| 8 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 9 | International trade in goods was liberalised far sooner than that in financial services . |
| 10 | He was vaguely aware that he was driving rather better than usual . |
| 11 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 12 | He was writing much later than the others . |
| 13 | The clock belonged to my grandfather , Isabel thought , it was made not later than the year 1850 by a craftsman , but such things are clearly no longer appreciated , nothing has value , it is all gimcracks and gewgaws . |
| 14 | The oldest surviving clock in England is the Salisbury Cathedral clock that was made not later than 1386 . |
| 15 | Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself . |
| 16 | The 78 , which appeared at the beginning of the 1977 season , was one of Chapman 's greatest and most revolutionary contributions to motor racing and the concept which it employed ( the so-called Venturi effect , by which the air was channelled under rather than over the car , thus giving it infinitely superior down-force and road-holding ability ) set the standard for many years to come . |
| 17 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |
| 18 | The demand for reserve currencies was growing more quickly than the supply of gold , so a liquidity shortage could only be avoided if the supply of dollars was increased . |
| 19 | The output of private presses , which was growing much faster than that of the party and the state , had to be monitored , and surpassed in quality by party organs . |
| 20 | This was not what Marian wanted , for they had worked out that the smoke of the outlaws , main Camp must be nearly two days march away and help and shelter for Hugh was needed far quicker than that . |
| 21 | But Steven Morrissey 's Manchester was rooted far deeper than the élitist circle of rock music . |
| 22 | Er anyhow th th the , the eventual thing was maybe her blood pressure was going up higher than it should and maybe whether the cumulative stress of having a husband off in my state , maybe |
| 23 | But Mr Lawson must have known that the timing of his words meant he was going much further than that . |
| 24 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 25 | The report said that the disease was spreading more rapidly than expected , in particular in the developing countries . |
| 26 | The Conservative government in Britain in 1990 still gave priority to fighting inflation , which was rising more steeply than in its commercial competitors . |
| 27 | Exile from the West Country was to last far longer than Coleridge can have expected . |
| 28 | This punishment , though , was dealt more severely than I think it should have . |
| 29 | Odd-Knut agreed , but only if the bottle was found tomorrow rather than today . |
| 30 | Peterborough 's HAH was set up more than 10 years ago , adapted from a system in Bayonne , France . |