Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 31 | They would cost more than £200 million — imagine 11 |
| 32 | Sponsors of the bill estimated that it would create more than 1,000,000 new jobs and would preserve some 1,000,000 existing jobs . |
| 33 | Mr John Godfrey of Eden Bus Services said there would still be traffic queues , but motorists would find they would move quicker than at present . |
| 34 | Siemens AG said last week that it would take longer than previously planned to reduce losses at its computer and also at its semiconductor divisions , and blamed a continued deterioration in market conditions . |
| 35 | The company says the attempt at a buyout failed because the managers realised that it would take longer than they had planned to develop a new generation of the 50 Series minicomputer line . |
| 36 | She claimed the decision not to use secondary teachers was because that would take longer than the Scottish Office was prepared to wait . |
| 37 | That would mean it would take more than three weeks to heal . |
| 38 | One union leader estimated last night that the measure would take more than £2 billion out of public sector workers ' pockets , would worsen the recession and cost even more jobs . |
| 39 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 40 | He said if a valuer were to get accurate valuations on all the properties in Milton Street it would take more than one day . |
| 41 | If we were lucky , it would take less than 24 hours . |
| 42 | They show that er an outer northern route , through Harrogate itself , on most stretches of road , would take less than twenty percent of traffic from the existing road . |
| 43 | Parents ' reports of birth weight and gestational age are sufficiently accurate for analysis and not necessarily worse than hospital case notes ; lack of accuracy would decrease rather than increase the strength of the observed associations . |
| 44 | Of course she did n't know anything and even if she did , she would die rather than say , but suppose he guessed she knew something ? |
| 45 | She would die rather than roll her eyes and wriggle and blush . |
| 46 | I think a lot of people are getting too excited about a technology which is which has been dreamed up by people who wish it would happen rather than prove it can happen . |
| 47 | Bateson explained : ‘ The League have been in contact to say that when they informed the FA of the meeting , they were told that no matter what the egm approved the FA would not sanction any agreement which would produce more than 24 clubs in any one division . |
| 48 | four arrow heads , two saddle querns , large quantities of Early Bronze Age flint and pot sherds which would indicate more than twenty-five decorated shoulder vases and nine food vessels . |
| 49 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 50 | Nuttall and Gipps ( 1982 ) estimate that the direct cost of the APU was £800,000 per year , which crudely would mean less than £30 per school . |
| 51 | Normally you would paraphrase rather than quote , because this is a way of rewriting the relevant material in a way which assimilates it into your essay ( rather than , as with a quotation , leaving it sticking out because of its different style ) . |
| 52 | The French government also announced that it would pay more than £5 million compensation to French fishermen for half the losses they reported last month as a result of falling prices . |
| 53 | A man would go faster than an arabeah , certainly if you took into account the time needed to explain it to the arabeah driver . |
| 54 | On his return to Rangoon in mid-October , Dorman-Smith announced that he would go further than the 17 May statement : he would appoint an advisory council . |
| 55 | For those reasons and the fact that the injunction sought would go further than is necessary to meet the situation complained of and would thus offend the principle of proportionality , Mr. Ashworth submits that the injunction should not go . |
| 56 | Erm I would go further than erm performance related pay for the cabinet and , and so on , and I would actually put them all on income support erm and see how they could cope ! |
| 57 | In the early stages it became apparent that the conference would go further than Kerekou had anticipated in discussion of future political reforms . |
| 58 | Yes , I would go further than that but that is stating my view as at its minimum . |
| 59 | The superimposition of massive conventional forces on what should have been an atomic strategy , made no sense to Churchill , who appreciated that financial pressures would reduce rather than increase the number of divisions that Britain could contribute to Western European defence . |
| 60 | Sir Bryan rejects all of the many arguments advanced by the Bar to the effect that the extension of audience rights would reduce rather than extend competition . |