Example sentences of "[adv] than the previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt comfortable and relaxed , much better than the previous day when I had n't slept at all , worried about whether my injury would stand up , whether I had come all this way for nothing . |
| 2 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it less than the previous allowance . |
| 3 | In those four boroughs where no one party had overall control there was a much more pronounced rise in Labour support , with the party 's share of the vote in Wirral increasing by over 8% despite an individual poll tax figure below government estimates and average household bills less than the previous year 's rates . |
| 4 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 5 | Local education authority officers could have a central role in helping managers in schools and colleges make decisions , rather than the previous role of making decisions for them . |
| 6 | Turn left or right towards the RC needle to offset it more than the previous allowance . |
| 7 | Twice daily , the tide comes in , and each day it will be approximately 50 minutes later than the previous day . |
| 8 | It is of no concern to a member who does sell ( at least from a financial point of view ) that the bidder , having gained control , may go on to operate the company less efficiently than the previous management or is some other way that is damaging to its business . |
| 9 | There were no records broken that day , the winner taking fourteen minutes twenty seconds to cover the course , over a minute slower than the previous year 's winner . |
| 10 | 1 ) Labelling the clothes will have to be much easier ! 2 ) It will be easier for the volunteers if people can bring the stuff earlier than the previous day if possible . |
| 11 | Borland International Inc is ready with a new release of its dBase IV database management system for MS-DOS and will announce the release of a MS-DOS compiler for dBase for the end of the month ; according to US PC Week , dBase IV 2.0 is designed to run up to 10 times faster than the previous release and the compiler will enable developers to create dBase III , dBase III Plus and dBase IV executable files that can be distributed to end users . |
| 12 | The first pass produces C code , the second pass results in machine code and bench tests two or three times faster than the previous version . |
| 13 | The final 50-mile dash around the streets of Manchester was run off at 29.9mph , bringing the race average to 26.97mph , threequarters of a mile per hour faster than the previous record , set by Joey McLoughlin in 1986 . |
| 14 | White Pudding , which also went round faster than the previous record , clocking 31.18 secs , is drawn in box four and the main danger to Kildare Slippy tomorrow could come from Run on King , which has been favourably allocated trap one . |