Example sentences of "than [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
2 | With typical Teutonic thoroughness , the Bölkow 's operating handbook is as comprehensive and useful a document as any I have encountered , with a proper alphabetical index and much more than just the bare minimum information required by the authorities . |
3 | Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time . |
4 | On the other hand , if ATP wanted to demonstrate that they really are interested in the welfare of more than just the top 75 , as some of their lower-ranked members have recently suggested , then helping Birmingham through its current difficulties , which one hopes are only temporary , would not have been a bad thing . |
5 | When Sally got off the bus he was waiting for her , leaning against the bonnet , smoking a cigarette and looking more than ever the dashing young man-about-town . |
6 | It was identified as a six gilled shark weighing 315lbs — more than double the current Irish record of 154lbs landed by Essex angler Andrew Bull in 1968 . |
7 | Mal Reilly 's squad pulled in record tour profits from their 17-match programme of £233,645 , more than double the previous best of £93,282 in 1974 . |
8 | If you are pregnant , or breastfeeding , for example , you will need more than double the recommended daily amount of calcium . |
9 | The resulting aircraft is much more versatile than even the legendary DC-3 and avoids the ever increasing costs of maintaining and operating a piston engined aircraft — turbine fuel is available worldwide but fuel for reciprocating engines is available in an ever diminishing number |
10 | Our main 1979 survey was designed largely to throw light on this relationship between people 's knowledge about credit and how they make actual shopping decisions — the first major study to explore this in this country , and more searching in this respect than even the valuable American studies carried out recently for the National Commission on Consumer Finance and the Federal Reserve Board . |
11 | He was later found to be more than twice the legal drink-drive limit . |
12 | ‘ Whether they ( the abnormalities ) really played any significant part in the fate of this baby , kept without nourishment or antibiotics and given dihydrocodeine in doses slightly more than twice the average fatal level for adults , is entirely a matter of opinion . ’ |