Example sentences of "than [art] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the attractions of younger men is that they appear to be less traditional than the older generation . |
| 2 | The Balakovo reactors are regulated by a pressurized water system and are considered much safer than the older type of reactor installed at Chernobyl , the site of the world 's worst nuclear accident in 1986 . |
| 3 | The new and younger archbishop looked twenty years older than the older archbishop . ’ |
| 4 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 5 | There was by then a growing feeling that the title " resident " conferred a higher status than the older term " agent " which was in any case dropping out of use . |
| 6 | Toby Freely was just nineteen , only a couple of years or so older than the oldest boy at Burleigh . |
| 7 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 8 | This new index will continue to provide information on the relative movement in the average value of sterling , but it needs to be noted that the absolute value of the index is higher than the old index . |
| 9 | The result was that after two years out of racing , Niki asked Ron Dennis to give him a private test — mainly to assure himself that he had not lost his skill and that he could face the new world of FI wing cars , quicker and much more road-adhering than the old generation . |
| 10 | But to make political sense out of doubt and qualification demands a higher quality of debate , analysis and representation than the old conviction politics . |
| 11 | The increased headway was essential to the concept of smaller 48-seat cars , which were quicker loading than the old Tramroad Company cars they replaced . |
| 12 | This does not sound much more liberal than the old idea of binding rules . |
| 13 | But this new alloy is being oxidised — and flaking off — much faster than the old alloy ; the chemistry of the mixtures is still poorly understood . |
| 14 | The definition in terms of ‘ threatening , abusive or insulting behaviour , ’ is modelled upon the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5 , but its scope is much wider than the old offence , and is meant to be . |
| 15 | Will it reach those who are entitled to it and is it far less complex than the old system ? |
| 16 | For example , Paddy Ashdown has made the Liberal Democrats much more of a free-market party than the old Alliance , with its occasional excursions into corporatism , ever was . |
| 17 | The new Carrera 4 is a significantly better car than the old rear-drive 911 . |
| 18 | The statute — which authorizes interception on grounds of national security without defining what is meant by national security — is clearly much wider than the old Home Office guidelines — which authorized warrants on the narrower grounds of ‘ major subversive or espionage activity ’ . |
| 19 | Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable . |
| 20 | He calls , rightly , for the exposure and elimination of such idolatry and in his final chapters shows how a new science , recognising its own metaphorical nature and its own limitations , can provide more meaning and significance to human likes than the old physics did . |
| 21 | The monk , nun or vicar could , for example , be described as a more involved member than the old lady who attends Matins each Sunday ; she , in turn , is more involved than those who go to church only at Christmas and Easter ; and they are probably more committed than the sailor who , when he fills out C of E on a form , is more likely to be making a cultural than a religious statement . |
| 22 | If this is the best Europe has to offer , Hollywood 's producers will be sleeping more soundly than the old lady who sat in front of me during the screening . |
| 23 | In both saloons moveable dining-room chairs were used and the tables also were made moveable , so that the interior of the saloons could be more easily and thoroughly cleaned than the old style of car with the fixed and upholstered furniture . |
| 24 | Luch bedded on a bag of bracken in a corner , but she and Ranald woke earlier than the old man . |
| 25 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
| 26 | It was taller by half than the old man himself |
| 27 | Or need I look no further than the old man 's unspoken mistrust of my intentions ? |
| 28 | Seston 's 100 metres time knocked six-tenths of a second off the previous record , while her 200 metres time was 1.2 seconds faster than the old mark . |
| 29 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 30 | The track is much sharper than the old turf course . |