Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there is also a chance that the individual plaintiff may live longer than the average expectation of life . |
| 2 | Robertson Nicoll , with his journalistic exuberance , boasted in 1902 that ‘ the average Dissenting minister has … a better literary and theological culture than the average minister of the Church [ of England ] ’ who were ‘ the worst educated [ ministry ] in this country ’ . |
| 3 | This is substantially higher than the average yield of shares quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 4 | In Brightman v Johnson ( 1985 ) The Times , 17 December an award made in December 1985 , Tudor Price J increased this figure to £95,000 to take account of the circumstances which made the plaintiff 's injuries more serious than the average case of tetraplegia ( see Report in para A2-001 of Vol 2 of Kemp & Kemp ) . |
| 5 | But it is still cost-effective since the rest of its annual costs , £3.85M or about £10/tonne , are 27 per cent less than the average cost of refusal disposal to the GLC and only half those of long-distance hole-filling contracts ( up to £23/tonne ) . |
| 6 | It is notable that all of the groups defined as ‘ non-standard ’ , and a number of those entering on the basis of other qualifications , perform better than the average level of achievement for A-level entrants . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the local authority employers said the 4.9pc rise was ‘ significantly lower ’ than the average level of pay rises across the whole economy . |
| 8 | This relationship is n't just common to product relationships it 's the same in cost revenue relationships as well Okay , so so what that diagram is saying in symbolic terms is that if the slope of the ideal product of labour curve , right , if D L P D A P L by D L positive , then the marginal product of labour must be greater than the average product of labour . |
| 9 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 10 | In 1988 , the average size of transactions where other EC companies took over UK companies was 2.5 times greater than the average value of transactions where UK companies acquired other EC companies . |
| 11 | As a service organisation , The Catering Guild depends entirely on the quality of its staff to maintain its own high ideals and , to help them recruit the very best people , it offers attractive terms and conditions — higher than the average rates of pay , Christmas bonuses , paid holiday from year one and superb training . |
| 12 | This was significantly higher ( P 0.01 ) than the average score of the total student population which was 50 . |
| 13 | Further the average score of 57.9 for the degree results of the non-standard entry mature students was significantly greater than the average score of 50 for all students . |
| 14 | The average depth of the sea is 12,430 feet — much deeper than the average height of the land , a mere 2,760 feet . |
| 15 | Under Bloch 's type of analysis , the statement that Hemingway uses " short sentences amounts to a claim that the average length of a Hemingway sentence is shorter ( to a significant extent ) than the average length of an English sentence : something which can in principle be verified or falsified . |
| 16 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 17 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
| 18 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 19 | Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ? |
| 20 | The amount of moisture left in it became even more important than the substantial amount of relatively thick green grass left on it . |
| 21 | The attitude of many older musicians and critics to science and technology is nothing more , of course , than the stale residue of the romantic , fin de siècle aesthetic that , in the phrase of Villiers de L'Isle-Adam , claims science to be ‘ the religion of the suburbs ’ . |
| 22 | Citrine was always reluctant to withdraw from a Central Authority position , but the more effective chairmen soon learned that careful preparation on committees beforehand and advance lobbying of Citrine and Self were a surer way of winning their point than the abrasive technique of frontal opposition . |
| 23 | Denmark has made cuts in employment and sickness benefits and France required hospital patients to contribute towards non-medical services and uprated welfare benefits in line with current inflation rather than the higher level of the previous year . |
| 24 | Overall taxation and benefits also reduce the final income of richer groups in the population , but less than the higher rates of income tax for high earners would suggest . |
| 25 | In aggregate , it will certainly be a greater cause of loss than the various forms of self-dealing , discussed in Chapter 7 , which have generated a substantial body of case law and are subject to detailed statutory regulation . |
| 26 | According to this model , local politics ( see also Chapter 5 , section 5.3.3 , where the ‘ dual state ’ thesis is discussed ) is more open to pluralist pressures , since locally based interest groups tend to be those of service consumers , rather than the various types of producer which dominate at other levels ( and often play a big part in determining what is possible at local level ) . |
| 27 | The various extensions of the franchise during the course of the century , much more radical in numerical terms than the various extensions of the previous century , and the growth in population have resulted in the electorate growing from one of 6,730,935 in 1900 to one of 42,703,019 in 1983 . |
| 28 | Although more expensive than the normal range of tartan carpets , an increasing number of people are having their own tartans designed . |
| 29 | It is well known that the volatile Nowozielski has had more than the normal share of ups and downs with the notoriously conservative Board of the Lyric . |
| 30 | It seems entirely likely that the giving of a mevleviyet was intended as a means of making possible — both in hierarchical terms and in terms of offering an inducement — the appointment of a scholar more highly qualified , and therefore , perhaps , more to be respected , than the normal run of kasabat kadis . |