Example sentences of "than [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , under the direction of an elected , unpaid council , it has an income of £45 million a year and a workforce of more than 500 with a plush head office near Regents Park . |
| 2 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 3 | On the left a businessman is dictating a letter to be typed , pedalling at a treadle-powered Graphophone to give better speed control than possible with a hand-crank . |
| 4 | The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole . |
| 5 | The charge is likely to be higher than that for a parishioner . |
| 6 | Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one . |
| 7 | The average length of stay in hospital for older people is usually longer than that for a young person with a similar medical condition . |
| 8 | The mourning observed for Jacob was only two days shorter than that for a pharaoh . |
| 9 | Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive . |
| 10 | There are few more important questions than that for an eagle to answer . |
| 11 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 12 | In Mustard v Morris , a decision of the Court of Appeal on 21 July 1981 it was argued that the award of damages for loss of amenities to a man who was already quite seriously disabled should be less than that to a previously fit person who had suffered equivalent injuries . |
| 13 | Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' . |
| 14 | As for commercial reactions , they can be judged by the fact that the capital cost of a first FBR is estimated by the British nuclear industry at between 20 and 30 per cent greater than that of a PWR , and generating costs 20 per cent more . |
| 15 | He saw no inconsistency between such temporary infatuations and the matrimonial ideal he presented now to Hooton , as he had already discussed it with Helen : ‘ I am not at all sure that there is anywhere a loftier , while there could be no sweeter , perfection than that of a household ’ . |
| 16 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 17 | In our experience dogs manage the loss of a front leg slightly better than that of a back leg . |
| 18 | Belpan 's tax base was less than that of a medium-sized European market town , which made running the country a financial nightmare . |
| 19 | He knew beyond any shadow of doubt that his own contribution to the hospital was worth infinitely more than that of a hundred Kegans . |
| 20 | The ability of the added stimulus to disrupt normal perception of the excitatory CS should undergo habituation and thus the ‘ inhibitory ’ power of the pre-exposed stimulus might be less than that of a novel one . |
| 21 | Whilst sailing in surf you should always keep an eye out for these sets since if you do n't you may suddenly find yourself amongst the larger waves whose ‘ rinse cycles ’ are considerably more vigorous than that of a washing machine . |
| 22 | If their commitment and reliability are seen to be less than that of a paid worker then the stereotype will be reinforced and the many totally committed and reliable volunteers will be misjudged . |
| 23 | And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist . |
| 24 | I have to confess at this point that my own sensitivity to psychic phenomena is scarcely higher than that of a slab of concrete . |
| 25 | The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force . |
| 26 | It is twenty times faster , has a larger memory , is thousands of times more reliable , consumes the power of a light bulb rather than that of a locomotive , occupies 1/30,000 the volume and costs 1/10,000 as much . |
| 27 | On other fronts , too , Niki , was proving a leader , the sort of senior driver whose participation in a team was greater than that of a mere employee , and it is to the merit of Ron Dennis and McLaren that Lauda was allowed to play a wider role . |
| 28 | Tied by a child , never having done a job other than that of a temporary chauffeuse to army officers , what could she do ? |
| 29 | THE two bosses who cut their own pay to less than that of a trainee to preserve jobs set a fine example in these tough times . |
| 30 | The average frequency of occurrence of a source node is greater than that of a target node , and a source node always has more than one target . |