Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the vast range of clothing and household goods that Savacentre sells , it receives far more customer returns than the average JS branch . |
| 2 | Mm Bit bit your 's will be a bit bigger than the average Chesapeake Bay Retrievers . |
| 3 | Certainly the taciturn detective has to deal with many more murders than the average Thames Valley policeman . |
| 4 | This second group of historians would therefore argue that the Labour Party was emerging before 1900 , and certainly not later than the famous Taff Vale case of 1900 and 1901 — when trade unions appeared to lose the right to strike without facing the threat of financial penalties . |
| 5 | Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard . |
| 6 | His voice was scarcely louder than the faint London hum of traffic far away that came through the window . |
| 7 | She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania . |
| 8 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 9 | GIBSON ES-335 Dot reissue , 1981 , beautiful blonde , immaculate condition , better than the usual Gibson quality , £575 ono . |
| 10 | The cost varies but the average homoeopathic prescription to buy privately costs less , and in some cases a lot less , than the standard NHS prescription charge . |
| 11 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 12 | He said he was shocked to monitor Miami Vice , shown on BBC 1 , in which characters Crockett and Tubbs killed 43 people in 18 episodes — more than the real Miami vice department killed in a whole year . |
| 13 | No one impressed more than the 21-year-old Hawick wing Tony Stanger whose hat-trick of tries boosted his tally to five in two internationals . |
| 14 | That is more than the extra CPP depreciation . |
| 15 | The fee for Blackman was said to be over £1,000 , and only £300 less than the existing Leeds record . |
| 16 | Such detailed procedures required to be operated by builders involve an equivalent , if not greater , cost to administer than the traditional PAYE scheme for directly employed labour . |
| 17 | Community care services in this area offer much better value for money than the traditional NHS approach . |
| 18 | ‘ With the current revival in the use of brass stair rods , the carpet made from black-faced Scottish wool is ideal for this purpose as it 's very hard-wearing and much cheaper than the traditional Brussels weave carpets . ’ |
| 19 | In 1874 ( Sir ) John Brunner and Ludwig Mond [ qq.v. ] began the production of soda at Winnington , Cheshire , by a new and cheaper process ( ammonia-soda ) than the traditional Leblanc method . |
| 20 | Hence TL is normally used in the following situations : beyond the range of radiocarbon : when no organic material has been preserved on the site : when the association between the event to be dated and the radiocarbon content of the organic samples is poor ; or for the few periods where the age range on a calibrated radiocarbon age is larger than the corresponding TL error term . |
| 21 | If art is an attempt to impose structure and meaning onto this chaos , there is no artefact more deliberately structured than the contemporary Hollywood movie , designed to prise money from the masses and reasssure them that good guys do n't necessarily finish last . |
| 22 | Of course it 's faster than the Junior Parker version . |
| 23 | Many others joined the SPD , and eventually had a major influence on changing its policies back into a more radical line than the Bad Godesberg programme . |
| 24 | It is less disconcerting to tackle the Rugby Union Yearbook , a glossy new annual edited by Mick Cleary who sets out to offer more words and less statistics than the respected Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook . |
| 25 | Apaches do n't come much better loved than the Biggin-based Juliet Uniform . |
| 26 | … when you put those two assessments together … they 're getting a very fair look … they 're getting a much fairer look than the Royal Shakespeare Company ever do . |
| 27 | For the long observations ( 1984/193,1986/019 and 1986/062 ) the null hypothesis was that only red noise was present ( other than the experimental Poisson noise ) . |
| 28 | Based around the proven XT-compatible V20 processor , the low-profile CompuAdd 810 runs at up to 10 MHz ( the speed of many AT units ) , offering far more power than the original IBM PC/XT . |
| 29 | The 16 Dial/Comet recordings of ‘ Bird Symbols ’ , by the way , also have an enclosed ‘ bathtub ’ sound ( actually no worse than many discs taken from nth generation masters ) , although they are also cleaner and less distorted ( and with less surface noise ) on the whole than the French Savoy product . |
| 30 | Fortunately for Mr Milosevic , public opinion in Serbia is easier to manipulate than the Bosnian Serb parliament . |