Example sentences of "than [art] small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We , in our turn , live 70 times longer than the smallest mammal , the shrew , and 1200 times longer than a fly . |
| 2 | There never was more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything concerned with railroads or near them . |
| 3 | It then follows that unc is an element of S smaller than the smallest element r of S. This absurdity leads us to conclude that |
| 4 | As might have been expected , the larger exhibitions attracted considerably more visitors than the smallest exhibition , but all three received a generally favourable response from the public , with both the Carlyle and MacLean exhibitions being rated as Very Good or Good by at least 90% of those who saw them , and with 78% of those who saw the Skinner exhibition giving it similar ratings . |
| 5 | For a time briefer than the smallest period measurable by today 's clocks , the universe grew ever faster , as energy stored up in some hitherto unsuspected field of force was released . |
| 6 | Many of the share purchasers now were large institutional buyers rather than the small saver or investor , the ‘ little man ’ or aged widow beloved of government propaganda . |
| 7 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 8 | As road transport has improved , changing from horse-drawn waggons to motorcars and lorries , the larger market towns and cities have grown in size much faster than the small ones . |
| 9 | But new landfills are generally larger than the small ones which close . |
| 10 | The wind speeds did not change appreciably from Voyager 1 to Voyager 2 , and certainly seem to be more constant than the small features from which the speeds were obtained . |
| 11 | Perhaps an even greater shock for us than the small population , tiny towns and scattered rural communities is the shape of the countryside ; the physical geography seems to be different . |
| 12 | Instead one has delicatessens which are more brightly lit and infinitely more hygienic than the small corner shops I have known , but with their fridges and freezers and extraction fans they have tamed their wares and robbed them of their pungency . |
| 13 | This party was a much bigger affair than the small gathering back in August , and Belinda had been swept along on a tide of food and drink and conversation . |
| 14 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 15 | If this latter is important , then we would expect the big rape cases which get a lot of media coverage to be especially important in the formation of beliefs , since they are more likely to be common currency for discussion than the smaller cases . |
| 16 | Er bigger than the smaller ones still presumably , one until five with Jenny . |
| 17 | The larger or very intensive farmers had generally used training to prepare themselves and their men much better than the smaller units . |
| 18 | Claiming that bureaucratic costs are much lower in the regions than the smaller districts while areas of duplication or overlap are ‘ marginal , ’ they state : ‘ The notion that financial savings will accrue from structural reform which break up large regions such as Lothian and Strathclyde does not merit serious consideration . ’ |
| 19 | Odder , though , that the killer , assuming there is a killer , did n't use it to dry himself rather than the smaller tea towel . ’ |
| 20 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 21 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 22 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 23 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 24 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 25 | Both Friends of the Earth and former CFC manufacturers , ICI , have acknowledged that the scheme has failed to collect more than a small proportion of CFCs from old appliances . |
| 26 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 27 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 28 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 29 | Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas . |
| 30 | Important [ but unrecognized ] though they may be to the man in the street , functional methacrylates are no more than a small side-branch in ICI 's acrylic chain . |