Example sentences of "than [art] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A draft investment-services directive was submitted by the commission to the council in January 1989 , and is much further along the legislative road than the two insurance directives . |
| 3 | Thursday night in Galway is the night to be seen out in the town : - ) , but I 've still got more than the two brain cells needed to see through your ploy Tim . |
| 4 | The Rover V8 engine , whilst being more powerful , is also more fuel efficient than the 2.25 litre unit . |
| 5 | If the 1989–90 actual intake is higher than the 1980 Act standard number , it will represent the standard number . |
| 6 | Some never get further than the nine railway termini which connect the capital to every part of the former Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The riders ' warm-up will be longer by far than the eight kilometre course itself , and then comes an anxious wait . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Greece sought until the last moment to hold out for a higher ceiling than the 60,500 transit licences offered to Greek lorries . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | This stimulation is nevertheless much lower than the 50 fold activity observed in the deletion analyses shown in figure 1 . |
| 12 | But few miners believe these figures ( given by the metallurgy minister ) ; if they were true , more than the 19 steel mills closed so far would have been affected . |
| 13 | 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% . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 9.6 volt cordless drills are generally lighter than the 12 volt types , making overhead work easy |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In 1988/89 , a milestone was passed when , for the first time , there were more than a million module enrolments in a single year . |
| 21 | More than a million working days are lost every year through smoking-related diseases . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | 60% of child cycle owners have less than a two kilometre journey to school ; |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nobody suggests you should buy shares over anything less than a three-to-five year period . ’ |
| 29 | MORE THAN a thousand peace campaigners crowded into Trinity College , Dublin , last night to spell out one of the Irish capital 's most eloquent protests against IRA terrorism . |
| 30 | The John Lennon hit ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations world-wide . |