Example sentences of "than [pron] [vb base] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , these are rest days in your training , so you can always do less than I recommend in the specific schedules . |
| 2 | He has words of praise for the RSNO Chorus , which he says has ‘ sounded better than I remember in a long time ’ in the initial rehearsals of a work new to all concerned . |
| 3 | ‘ For your information , I do n't believe in double standards for men — any more than I believe in them for women . |
| 4 | In later chapters , then , I hope that I will display a more ecumenical perspective than I manage in this one ! |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't belong in his life , any more than I belong in yours or in anybody 's . |
| 6 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 7 | I think I 've been up and down to the Big Smoke more times since Christmas than I have in the past two years — and the jaunt next weekend — at long last Mark & I have managed to use a Boots free train ticket voucher — two of us for £45.55 — Baaargain ! |
| 8 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 9 | I actually feel more at home in Britain and in the States and France than I do in the North . |
| 10 | : I 've more natural hair up my nostrils than you have in that knitted rug of yours . |
| 11 | Our new plan will mean you will feel better than you have in years — and help you lose weight |
| 12 | For though I doubt if he 's ready to own to it yet , I know of another who can and will testify that the two of them were together until the bell sounded for Compline , which would be the better part of an hour later than you have in mind , and a quarter of an hour 's walk from the place , into the bargain . |
| 13 | ‘ He had more brains in his little finger than you have in your whole skinny body . ’ |
| 14 | You know more about a guy in one night in bed than you do in months of conversation , ’ she once said . |
| 15 | You get higher turn out in non- metropolitan districts than you do in county council or in metropolitan district elections . |
| 16 | You get much higher turn out in local government elections in western Europe , we western European states than you do in Britain . |
| 17 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 18 | This year we are paying into the Common Market budget about £2.5 billion more than we receive in order to subsidise richer countries . |
| 19 | We get much more happiness in investing in other people 's lives than we do in self-isolation . |
| 20 | Questions may look all right on paper simply because we accept a more formal style in writing than we do in speech , but they may sound absolutely frightful when put into speech . |
| 21 | Why is it that when one travels abroad , say in France , they have such a different approach to aviation than we do in Britain ? |
| 22 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 23 | It means that we bring our disordered lives right into marriage more than we do in any other kind of relationship . |
| 24 | My own company operates in more than seventy countries , and we employ more people in other parts of the world than we do in our homeland , the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | In a relatively focused community such as Ballymacarrett , therefore , we observe much greater regularity in the patterning of the variable elements than we do in less focused communities , and we may further suggest that the variants used in such a focused community develop a clear and consistent pattern in their social functions . |
| 26 | ‘ We have a much higher profile abroad than we do in this country , ’ said Patrick . |
| 27 | It 's less than we pay in Wolverhampton . |
| 28 | ‘ Does that mean we shall see a great deal more of each other than we have in the past ? ’ she asked . |
| 29 | What is more disturbing today is that the Germans have been quicker and more successful to recognise the causes of the decline in their research community than we have in the UK . |
| 30 | Well , he 'll be tried by a higher court than we have in this life . |