Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 2 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 3 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |
| 4 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 5 | More than 77,000 people have visited the exhibition to find out for themselves already this year — that 's almost 28,000 more than for the same period in 1991 ! |
| 6 | 172 bomb incidents this year — 54 fewer than for the same period last year . |
| 7 | In the past nine months the terror group — which boasts a bigger membership than the IRA — has murdered 14 people , two more than for the same period last year . |
| 8 | This is nearly 200,000 more than during the same period last year , an increase of 14 per cent . |
| 9 | These gave local authorities substantially more independence than under the former communist regime . |
| 10 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 11 | It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract . |
| 12 | Yet starting a daily paper anywhere other than in a few large cities is scarcely an attractive investment . |
| 13 | Growth in the latter was , however , considerably more rapid than in the former , reflecting the availability of social security funding for residential services provided by the independent sector ( Baldwin et al . , |
| 14 | There may be more scope for a GIS approach in the latter than in the former situations . |
| 15 | The eyes and the fins of the dolphins are also much more clearly and elaborately depicted than in the former . |
| 16 | After a flight to the west , meetings should take place in the morning by new local time rather than in the latter part of the day . |
| 17 | Such evidence might be taken to show a much less intense use of coinage in the former than in the latter , a view which could be supported by the calculations based on the material from Bath that very little coinage was available in circulation per capita of the population of Roman Britain ( see p. 47 ) . |
| 18 | Predictably , they came up with a plot-line set in the professional reaches of the law , rather than in the more ‘ artisan ’ area of policing . |
| 19 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 20 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 21 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 22 | On figures that are probably far too kind , real GNP was a staggering 8% lower in the first three months of this year than in the same period last year ; investment is dropping fast ; foreign trade has shrunk by a third . |
| 23 | That is a lot less than in the same period in 1990 ( 9m man-days ) , but this year those first three months also saw a startling 8% fall in GNP . |
| 24 | Turnover was £136.5m , 18 per cent higher than in the same period last year . |
| 25 | Pfizer reported net profits of $274.7m for the third quarter of 1991 , 13 per cent higher than in the same period in 1990 . |
| 26 | In the British Medical Journal a Bristol hospital claimed that 24 car drivers were admitted after accidents in February , 18 less than in the same month in 1982 . |
| 27 | The Chancellor said in the first nine months of 1992–93 the Employment Service found jobs for 31,000 unemployed disabled people , 25 per cent more than in the same period of 1991–92 . |
| 28 | Business collapses soared to 46,500 over the past nine months — 40 per cent more than in the same period last year . |
| 29 | Western German GDP in the first quarter was 3.2% lower than in the same period of 1992 . |
| 30 | In the first 11 months of 1992 Brazil exported 15m bags of coffee — 14% fewer than in the same period of 1991 . |