Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A merger between Chase Manhattan and its New York neighbour , Chemical Bank , could free up more money than the two banks ' combined net profit over the past five years . |
| 2 | Currently , the TUC 's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives ' courses , not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues . |
| 3 | In the 1940s Ewan McColl , the folksinger , and Joan Littlewood , the playwright and theatre director , recorded an old Dales lead-miner singing a song called " Fourpence a Day " which tells more truthfully than the industrial archaeologists ' sometimes ebullient picture of the grandeur of Victorian enterprise , the real benefits of lead-mining for the many — simply hardship and poverty . |
| 4 | His claims for communications were , in fact , much more modest than the English lecturers ' claims for English . |
| 5 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 6 | Were the gay group 's " control " dreams also more sexually charged than the medical students ' ? |
| 7 | What I 'm trying to say is that er Notts County supporters have got ta watch out for the other English teams ' scores rather than the Italian teams ' scores . |
| 8 | These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers ' scapegoat , the rapacious landlords . |
| 9 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 10 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 11 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 12 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 13 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 14 | And yet , ever since they had returned to New York , Laura had barely had more than a few minutes ' private conversation with her husband . |
| 15 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |