Example sentences of "[was/were] far [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The costs of treating Richard in this fashion were far greater than the gains to be made from keeping him in suspense about his future . |
| 2 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 3 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 4 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 5 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 6 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
| 7 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
| 8 | Opposition spokesmen claimed that the real turn-out was far lower than the official figure . |
| 9 | The number of applications — 57,900 — was far lower than the anticipated 300,000 . |
| 10 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
| 11 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 12 | The tented village was far larger than the one assembled for The Open at Troon and stretched over some 10 acres on the site . |
| 13 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 14 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 15 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet during a debate on emergency price curbs , Mr Ryzhkov was far blunter than a man accustomed to the velvety circumlocutions and understatements , second nature to Western central bankers . |
| 16 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 17 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 18 | The great difference between the events of the 1540s and earlier periods of hostility between England and Scotland was that this episode was far more than a particularly dramatic example of the eternal political and military triangle of England , Scotland and France , or even just the revival by Henry VIII and Somerset of that old English dream , the unification of England and Scotland . |
| 19 | The ‘ Constantinian revolution ’ was far more than the sudden breaking out of peace over the church and demanded a drastic reconstruction of the framework of experience . |
| 20 | This was far longer than the age of the earth as calculated by the creationists . |
| 21 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |