Example sentences of "than [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 2 | the file generation number will be one greater than the highest generation of any file with the same name and extension as the outcoming binary file , held in the user 's account . |
| 3 | And in fact , on the County Council 's own figures , which have g got completions since nineteen seventy seven , you 'll find that nineteen seventy seven to nineteen seventy nine , have higher house building rates , than the highest rate of the nineteen e the highest year of the nineteen eighties . |
| 4 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 5 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 6 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 7 | With the benefit of the latest steam-XXXX turbines , the new plant is planned to achieve thermal efficiency of 52 per cent — a 20 per cent increase over that of normal coal power stations , and 12 per cent higher than the best performance of nuclear plants . |
| 8 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 9 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 10 | There never was more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything concerned with railroads or near them . |
| 11 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 12 | just to exist , was a very hard one , but they were home and many of those who lived in these remote parts had probably never been further away than the nearest celebration of Holy Communion . |
| 13 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 14 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 15 | The experience of the Modular Course is that the risks are worthwhile , because when the evaluation study does carry conviction , consequential course changes are accepted as a natural path for course development to take given the known facts , rather than the latest wheeze of course management . |
| 16 | By far the most advanced type of Intelloid — artificial intelligence in non human form — and more capable even than the latest model of all-purpose , human-form , mandroid . |
| 17 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 18 | THE Berlin Wall has long been more than the ugliest symbol of Europe 's division . |
| 19 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |