Example sentences of "[det] than the previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
2 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |
3 | Debt servicing was allocated R2,700 million , 27 per cent more than the previous year . |
4 | The package , worth 6 per cent more than the previous year 's assistance , went a long way towards the $9,200 million required by India to meet an expected current-account deficit of $6,000 million and debt repayments of $3,200 million . |
5 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
6 | Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage . |
7 | But this , even more than the previous example , is not , of course , an attitude confined to women . |
8 | Once , he piled 66 milk crates on his head — 42 more than the previous record . |
9 | Ami Pro 3.0 uses the mouse much more than the previous version . |
10 | It would create about 15,000 jobs and would cost between £2 billion and £3 billion , considerably less than the previous route . |
11 | The investment and equipment budget , at 129,578,000 million francs CFA , was projected at 10.6 per cent less than the previous year . |
12 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |