Example sentences of "this than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is easier to persuade the clerks in the education office of this than the teaching staff in schools . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 4 | There were many good reasons for adopting the latter course as Claudius badly needed to be certain of the loyalty of his army , and there was no better opportunity for obtaining this than the prospect of a great victory . |
| 5 | However , better this than the alternative , ‘ Dookeepent-arch ’ , which means ‘ Please , let's never see each other again ’ . |
| 6 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |