Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] single [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A team of nine is far more effective than a single person in making contact with schools .
2 From a pilot study comparing the antiviral effect of interferon , acyclovir and a combination of interferon and acyclovir , it was concluded that combination therapy appears to be a highly promising treatment for chronic hepatitis B. As more recent controlled studies have shown that acyclovir does not enhance the therapeutic effect of interferon alone , the results of the pilot study could also be interpreted as indicating that a second course of interferon after short term primer interferon therapy is more effective than a single course .
3 The row of deutzia grown as a snowy hedge in rough grass is much more effective than a single bush .
4 The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Stations for 1904 lists ‘ Stretford Bridge Junction Station ’ , suggesting something rather more grand than the single platform , without even a name board , that represented the sole facility for passengers here .
5 The results of this experiment would seem to preclude an analysis of the acoustic waveform by the acoustic-phonetic component into anything other than a single string of phonemes .
6 However , if a double page spread ( DPS ) is 75 per cent more expensive than a single page , or a 40-second TV spot is 33 per cent more expensive than a 30-second spot , is the resulting ad going to be 75 per cent or 33 per cent more effective ?
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