Example sentences of "in [adj] than [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The median serum IGF-I concentration was lower in patients with active disease than in matched controls , and lower in stunted than well grown patients , but insulin and IGFBP-1 concentrations were not significantly different between any group . |
| 2 | The median serum IGF-I concentration was significantly lower in stunted than well grown patients . |
| 3 | In Latin America the percentage of the total female population who worked , decreased during this period showing that , as in other LDCs ( with the exception of Oceania ) , the proportion of women in the labour force was smaller in 1975 than previously in 1960 . |
| 4 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 5 | Static welfare losses that arise from departures from competition in output markets are set against longer-run , dynamic gains which may arise from an increase in the supply of innovations that come about in less than perfectly competitive markets . |
| 6 | So you will be taking in about twice as much dietary fibre in less than half as much food . |
| 7 | However , theoretical and experimental studies of the accretional processes show that it is unlikely that a body with the low mass of the Moon could have accreted in less than about 10 Ma . |
| 8 | However , he successfully adopted his style in more than adequately coping with the West Indian fast bowling of the 1960's . |
| 9 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 10 | However , in instances whereby an originating office makes a request for assistance that would result in more than simply providing a favour' then a fee is appropriate and its level should be determined directly between the two offices concerned . |
| 11 | Mr Patten , however , is engaged in more than simply relieving his own exasperation at Beijing 's procrastination . |
| 12 | It is not possible to forecast in more than very general terms what the job opportunities will be in three or four years ' time . |
| 13 | It is not using the 33MHz and 40MHz silicon Texas Instruments just announced ( UX No 384 ) , but will come in higher than both those rates . |
| 14 | Though data are not available , it may well be that socio-economic disparities were narrower in 1974 than before as a result partly of the Contract of Employment Act , 1963 , which required employers to give their employees notice of one to four weeks according to length of service , and partly of the increased power of trade unions . |
| 15 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 16 | In April a US Defence Department study on " burden sharing " claimed that the USA had spent a larger share of its national income on the military budget in 1988 than virtually all its NATO allies , and cited Japan and Canada for what it called " below par " contributions to Western defence . |