Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 2 | However , the sight of two women making love was less of a turn-off for women viewers than the sight of two men making love was for male viewers . |
| 3 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 4 | The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies . |
| 5 | The Tertiary sector was already larger than the Primary in 1841 and provided virtually half of all jobs by 1961 : it advanced most markedly between 1911 and 1931 . |
| 6 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 7 | Using 1016 mb as the datum , it is clear that if the atmospheric pressure is higher than the datum of 1016 mb , the practical effect will be to give a lower water level than the predicted value . |
| 8 | The 75 per cent requirement is less than the requirement for 90 per cent acceptances in respect of the shares to which the offer relates in order to effect a compulsory sale by the minority under CA 1985 , s429 ( see Chapter 14 ) . |
| 9 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 10 | Surely it was no later than the winter of 1817 ? |
| 11 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 12 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 13 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 14 | Christian marriage is no less than the unity of two people , living out the reality of Christ 's coming , death and resurrection in their lives together . |
| 15 | The second peak in employees in employment in Figure 2.1(a) includes far more part-time workers than the peak in 1966 ( see Chapter 5 ) : so is the figure comparing like with like ? |
| 16 | The group in the Smoking Room that afternoon resembled rather more the Angry Brigade than the Gang of Five . |
| 17 | Moreover , there is such a difference between one man and another that the man of 70 may still be at a higher level than the man of 20 at his peak : although the latter , starting so to speak from a lower level , will normally reach the later age at a much lower point than the former . |
| 18 | They will note that Europe and America have decided not to risk a fight with a Bosnian Serb adversary whose army is probably no bigger than the equivalent of three or four rather ill-equipped divisions . |
| 19 | For little more than the price of two rolls of 35mm this source of invaluable information really is worth having . |
| 20 | The kitchen door was much younger than the cottage with two frosted glass panels in the top half . |
| 21 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 22 | MITI argues that their guidance has at least prevented maturity rates from getting much longer than the average of four months . |
| 23 | My colleagues and I actually take no pleasure in agreeing to a rent increase which results in the highest public sector rates among our neighbouring districts er it is some eighteen percent higher than the average of eight local councils . |
| 24 | Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup . |
| 25 | Zip , about 3cm shorter than the length of one side ( excluding seam allowance ) . |
| 26 | For the moment , the revolution of 1327 seemed to amount to little more than the replacement of one greedy and unscrupulous faction by another . |
| 27 | In the C & G advertisements an interest rate of 12.75 per cent , which was the annual flat rate , was more prominent than the APR of 13.7 per cent . |
| 28 | Brontosaurus was 25 metres long and weighed 30 tons , while Brachiosaurus was a long-necked , lizard-hipped creature weighing 80 tons ( or more than the weight of sixteen elephants ) . |
| 29 | Surely this was something more than the heat of twelve geese cooking on a summer 's night ? |
| 30 | But other languages like Telegu , Bengali , Marathi , Tamil , Urdu , Gujarati , Kannada and Malayalam can hardly be ignored ; each is probably spoken by more people than the population of 145 of the member-states of the United Nations . |