Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 2 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 3 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 4 | to each other than in the first two species . |
| 5 | Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply . |
| 6 | So far this year the value of sales has been 5 per cent higher than in the first ten months of 1990 . |
| 7 | I was in less difficulty than on the first two days : I no longer pushed the ends of the shafts but gained better control from between them and was able to look around without overbalancing . |