Example sentences of "than [art] [noun] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No more agoraphobia ( mistrust of anything longer than the classic three minutes , the squitBrit aversion to the cumulus wail ) . |
| 2 | If the recovery fails to materialise , the deficit in 1993-94 could be even greater than the £50 billion forecast , and the Chancellor will either have to slash welfare spending in November or put taxes up even further , risking a vicious circle of rising taxes , depleted spending power and slower growth , or borrow more which inevitably will mean putting interest rates back up . |
| 3 | Other than the s 92 remedy , it may be possible for the minority shareholder to petition the court under s 459 , CA1985 alleging ‘ unfair prejudice ’ . |
| 4 | If Mr Kaifu fails to revive the parliamentary bill designed to support the anti-Iraq forces in the Gulf , the Americans are likely to ask for a lot more than the $4 billion Japan has so far promised to contribute towards the growing expenses there . |
| 5 | Like my hon. Friend , I want to concentrate on the future rather than the past 20 years . |
| 6 | The images were returned by the on-board TV cameras and yielded detail on the Mercurian surface down to about 1 km across , about as good as the Moon viewed through a telescope with a magnification of × 120 and about 300 times better than the pre-Mariner 10 images . |
| 7 | Safrane 's design has been optimised to provide the best in passenger protection and the car has also been crash tested at 35 mph into an oblique barrier rather than the standard 30 mph ‘ head-on ’ impact test . |
| 8 | The Brink's-Mat trials left Britain 's taxpayers with a bill bigger than the £26 million robbery haul . |
| 9 | That will certainly mean a slightly smaller , lighter car with an engine of less than the present 6.75 litres . |
| 10 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 11 | The fee for this type of work would again be based on time taken plus outlays , but , since it is a detailed survey , it will be more costly than the Type 1 search described above . |
| 12 | The fee for this type of work would again be based on time taken plus outlays , but , since it is a detailed survey , it will be more costly than the Type 1 search described above . |
| 13 | Category 2 includes the long-eared owl , Verreaux eagle owl , and the great grey owl , with total digestion percentages of 20–30 per cent , and this is considerably higher than the category 1 species . |
| 14 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 15 | However , there are predictions that he will be able to announce a lower out-turn on borrowing this year than the £7 billion forecast . |
| 16 | The description is saved as part of the worksheet , not as a separate file , so the filename you choose can contain more than the regulation eight letters . |
| 17 | However , City economists expect Britain 's trade deficit to improve , but with few expecting next year 's trade gap to be better than the £15 billion figure forecast by Mr Major in his autumn statement . |
| 18 | An official at Vnesheconombank , the state-owned bank for foreign trade , suggests that the most accurate figure is $12 billion-13 billion , just slightly less than the $14 billion Russia received in aid last year . |
| 19 | The kart drivers will be going a lot slower than the Formula One boys at Little Rissington in Gloucestershire on Sunday … but arguably the racing could be a lot more exciting . |
| 20 | He approached the cash till with the supreme confidence of a man who has paid a cheque into his account more than the requisite three working days in advance . |
| 21 | Television dollars have in the past paid for the rising salaries but today 's bidders seem determined to pay less than the $1.45 billion CBS and ESPN bid in winning the current four-year deal for network and cable rights . |
| 22 | When the acted-upon was more animate than the actor 133 passives were used , compared with only 16 when this pattern was reversed . |
| 23 | The gap was less than the £1 billion deficit which most experts had feared . |
| 24 | It says that without building on existing community services , residential care will expand even faster than the £1 billion growth in the 1980s , as measured by social security costs . |
| 25 | Longer , higher and wider than the old R25 , the more rounded Safrane is 148mm ( 5.8ins ) shorter than the Rover 800 fastback but , at 1818mm between doors , is nearly an inch wider than the Citroen XM . |
| 26 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 27 | Whatever the urgency , setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid . |
| 28 | This does not have to correspond with the aesthetic merit of the work as a whole : the opening of David Copperfield is in many respects more like the Class 1 sample than the Class 2 sample above . |
| 29 | It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place . |
| 30 | L&SE went out with a bang rather than a whimper. 12 May was marked by the introduction of no less than four new electric services ; on the Eastern Region branch lines between Wickford and Southminster and between Romford and Upminster ; on the Great Eastern main line between Manningtree and Harwich ; and ( at last ) over the thirty-two miles between Tonbridge and Hastings . |