Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rarely spend less than £200 a night , and often more . |
| 2 | For example , people would rather walk further than have to carry water pots a shorter way uphill . |
| 3 | He would rather die now than carry on under these circumstances . |
| 4 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |
| 5 | The Mayor , Ald. Cocker , known as ‘ The Father of Blackpool ’ , was not impressed and wagered John Bickerstaffe that the new tramway would not last more than two years ! |
| 6 | This contrasts with recent statements by Royal Navy officials that contamination would not spread more than two kilometres and that an accident would take " quite some time " to develop . |
| 7 | He said that he had his boss with him and that they would not wait longer than eight . |
| 8 | He was delighted to receive a good price for me , especially as he felt sure I would not live longer than a month . |
| 9 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 10 | Setting the threshold at £200,000 , which would include all but 1 per cent of taxpayers , would still yield more than £3 billion . |
| 11 | But the paradox is that if both sides were to disarm , they would both do better than by both arming , because each prefers mutual disarmament ( 3 , 3 ) to the arms race ( 2 , 2 ) . |
| 12 | Additionally , some programmes would also involve more than one organization . |
| 13 | Japan and Germany , it predicted , would also achieve more than 3 per cent growth . |
| 14 | Whatever the Government say , there can be no doubt from the answers given to parliamentary questions that , if the pension had been increased in line with earnings , a married couple would now receive more than £20 a week extra . |
| 15 | I would n't print more than three hundred for a start . |
| 16 | Where a discharger would consistently do better than his existing consent , standards have sometimes been tightened . |
| 17 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |