Example sentences of "than [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have reduced that period to five weeks , which means that millions of patients now wait for shorter periods than they did under a Labour Government . |
| 32 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |
| 33 | This , the DoI press office ruefully admits , is a better turn out than it normally-gets for a major announcement on government policy by a senior minister . |
| 34 | The history of the convention in England since the 1770s , however , more frequently indicated its possibilities for focusing ‘ pressure from without ’ on the political class than it pointed to a fully fledged anti-parliament . |
| 35 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 36 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 37 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 38 | He looked younger close-up than he had from a distance . |
| 39 | ‘ I reckon I 've got more in this pocket than he gets in a month . ’ |
| 40 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 41 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |
| 42 | Sophie was after all thirteen , and it 's a rare contemporary child — especially born to parents in the communicative arts , that being the only umbrella heading under which both Lou and myself could suitably cluster : though he saw , probably rightly , greater sensibility and sensitivity in a Bloch quartet than he did in a Sunday Times editorial — who can expect both parents to live permanently and companionably together . |
| 43 | It must be stressed , however , that this is what can be achieved by effort , innovation and good management in production , rather than what happens in a laissez-faire atmosphere . |
| 44 | Now an enzyme is more than what comes with a pack of washing powder . |
| 45 | It was not until I saw a sailor much smaller than myself performing in a Force 6 that it dawned on me that the answer must lie in a good technique . |
| 46 | Most people on the set thought the incident was funnier than anything seen in a ‘ Carry On ’ film before . |