Example sentences of "than [art] [num] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his return to Rangoon in mid-October , Dorman-Smith announced that he would go further than the 17 May statement : he would appoint an advisory council . |
| 2 | Although smaller and lighter than the 7.62 Self Loading Rifles which we had used in the Territorial Army , its strength lay in its high velocity rounds and accuracy . |
| 3 | The Rover V8 engine , whilst being more powerful , is also more fuel efficient than the 2.25 litre unit . |
| 4 | For instance , the maximum period of imprisonment for simple theft was three years , much longer than the six months term which a police court could now impose . |
| 5 | If the 1989–90 actual intake is higher than the 1980 Act standard number , it will represent the standard number . |
| 6 | The riders ' warm-up will be longer by far than the eight kilometre course itself , and then comes an anxious wait . |
| 7 | One English study showed accident rates of 5–9 year olds 15–20 times higher in residential areas than the 17–59 age group , whilst another has shown that young pedestrians account for 38 per cent of recorded casualties in residential area accidents and young cyclists a further nine per cent . |
| 8 | ‘ The three year cost of a new system that can handle the load effectively is often cheaper , pound for pound , than the three year cost of supporting an old , slow , ineffective machine , ’ MacCormick said . |
| 9 | Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team . |
| 10 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 11 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 12 | I have stopped the bullet close to the hook for two reasons , the first being that crust is light and buoyant to an extent even when soaked , so the closeness of the bullet will stop it from rising off the bottom any more than the 1½ inch distance of the plastic leger-stop from the hook . |
| 13 | ‘ We have the experience to win the trophy first time out , ’ he said , even though Wednesday will face much sterner tests than the 8-1 first-leg rout of Spora . |
| 14 | I am , however , pleased that the discussion papers now recognise that strategic planning and public transport will require special mechanisms , particularly if other than the 15 Authority option is chosen . |
| 15 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |
| 16 | McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study showed clearly that the personal incomes of ex-carers were around £40 lower than the 1988 Family Expenditure Survey ( FES ) per capita average , while the incomes of two-adult households containing an ex-carer were £144 a week lower than their FES counterparts . |
| 17 | Gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth rate in 1989 was estimated at just over 10 per cent , slightly lower than the 1988 growth rate of 11 per cent . |
| 18 | If the overall figure is more than the twenty-five pounds minimum . |
| 19 | Finally , there was the fear that a solution based on any principle other than the 1949 Armistice Line would have destabilizing repercussions on Jordan and Israel . |
| 20 | There are , however , more than a million Serbs living in other republics , mainly in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina . |
| 21 | A 500 gram cone of airy acrylic would have many more metres or yards of yarn on it than a 500 gram cone of much denser cotton . |
| 22 | A 500 gram cone of airy acrylic would have many more metres or yards of yarn on it than a 500 gram cone of much denser cotton . |
| 23 | 60% of child cycle owners have less than a two kilometre journey to school ; |
| 24 | For instance , you can look round this place and be very impressed but it probably costs less to stay here than a two star hotel in England . |
| 25 | As a result of the Pilot Study , it was decided to proceed with a seven day diary rather than a one day diary , but that a methodological component should be built into the Survey to monitor the quality of the data . |
| 26 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 27 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 28 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 29 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 30 | For these reasons supplements for 7 night holidays may be different from a 10 night holiday , and sometimes a 10 or 11 night holiday may have a higher supplement than a 14 night holiday . |