Example sentences of "than [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey of nitrogen oxide levels in the atmosphere , also conducted by the JCCU , recorded concentrations in the Tokyo and Osaka areas higher than the 0.06 parts per million maximum level set by the environment agency . |
| 2 | But such people will want a smoother-running , cleaner , tidier Greece than the one tourists find now . |
| 3 | We need to be able to perceive more than the five emotions above , and it is easy enough to do so . |
| 4 | As you might imagine my monthly food bill has gone up quite appreciably , far more than the five pounds a month just before the programme Too Long a Winter was made . |
| 5 | He stood scowling down at her and Claudia wished she were taller than the five feet eight she had always thought just right . |
| 6 | If any member has any pictures of the Bishop 's Castle Railway , other than the two sets of four photos that the Society has issued , we would be very grateful for details . |
| 7 | These were more numerous and more complicated than the two groups of conformist and non-conformist boys identified by Willis . |
| 8 | Because if you 're running you wo n't have the time or energy to soak up more than the two pages of essential last-minute information starting on page 44 . |
| 9 | The mirthless chuckle made Peregrine sound more serious than the two girls had every known him . |
| 10 | This demand system can be derived by maximizing the following aggregate profits function Γ for farmers with respect to Q 1 and Q 2 : where the aggregate production function for farmers is defined as : It is important to note that , for simplicity , the aggregate production function is of quadratic form and assumed to be homothetic , no inputs other than the two forms of fertilizers are considered , and the farmers ' output prices have been normalized to one . |
| 11 | Dr Alan Watkins , Hawker Siddeley 's chief executive , said the deal with GEC Alsthom would re-inforce its position in the fiercely competitive UK market and enable it to achieve greater exports than the two companies had separately . |
| 12 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 13 | I must have got it wrong , for ‘ one ’ was older than the two brothers , Guy and Noël . |
| 14 | A merger between Chase Manhattan and its New York neighbour , Chemical Bank , could free up more money than the two banks ' combined net profit over the past five years . |
| 15 | In this respect the proposed test is , if anything , clearer than the two rivals . |
| 16 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 17 | The success of the second petition had turned on the fact that it included the signatures of the professors of the two schools — Sewell , Spooner and Simonds for London and Dick for Edinburgh — but no sooner had the Charter been granted than the two schools were in dispute with the Royal College . |
| 18 | The process takes much longer than the two years of ‘ aftercare ’ written into many restoration contracts . |
| 19 | It merits consideration , even though there is still keen advocacy for cash flow accounting , and even though there are inevitably additional costs and a long lead-time to production ( probably rather more than the two years in NZ ) as departments switch to accrual accounting . |
| 20 | The total number of eligible beneficiaries was 29 in 1963 and 32 in the subsequent relevant years and they were all persons other than the two settlors . |
| 21 | The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest . |
| 22 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 23 | It was only police vigilance which prevented more than the four casualties . |
| 24 | The navy says an accident would not give anybody a dose higher than the four millirems per year limit set for drinking water in the US . |
| 25 | An allowance period shorter than the four years mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman might have an immediate and useful effect . |
| 26 | As the diagonal ribs were longer than the four ribs connecting the four sides or faces of the bay , it was impossible for all these ribs to be semi-circular in section unless the vault were domical ( dome-shaped ) , thus creating an uneven ridge line , or the side arches were stilted . |
| 27 | What Charles said in major speeches which he put a great deal of time and thought into , seldom went farther than the four walls he spoke within . |
| 28 | The busy physician points out that he makes many more night visits than the six calls a week he puts in a £270 claim for . |
| 29 | For instance , the maximum period of imprisonment for simple theft was three years , much longer than the six months term which a police court could now impose . |
| 30 | ‘ Whatever intrigue there was between Lotta Petterson and myself died slowly and painfully and has been extinct for much longer than the six months we have gone our separate ways . ’ |