Example sentences of "than [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the sons and daughters of the farming family was imposed the strict necessity of abstaining from sexual activity other than for the first born , so as not to impair the integrity of land succession . |
| 2 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 3 | Other than for the first flight of the day , engine run-ups are not deemed necessary because the aircraft 's engines are almost always warm , so off-chock to take-off times are often three minutes or less . |
| 4 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 5 | In all of Delhi 's history , at no period was that thin dress of civilization more beautiful — or more deceptively woven — than during the first half of the seventeenth century , during the Golden Age of Shah Jehan . |
| 6 | Lucy listened to the repeated message with her heart in her mouth , and , hearing it again , the voice sounded even more arrogant than during the first recording . |
| 7 | With the second set of options ( long repayment period = low APR ) , the average repayment period chosen was if anything shorter than with the first ( short repayment period = low APR ) . |
| 8 | Yet there is a deeper , yet more exultant sense of the delights of love , of its mellifluous sensuality , in this second book than in the first ; though Scobie overstates his case when he claims it as ‘ nothing more than a joyous celebration ( of love ) richly seasoned . ’ |
| 9 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 10 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 11 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 12 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 13 | Language work in the final year is more specialized than in the first two years and includes translation and précis writing in administrative , technical and commercial registers of the languages , as well as some interpreting . |
| 14 | to each other than in the first two species . |
| 15 | The role of the state was to be changed so that it would offer help in the last rather than in the first resort . |
| 16 | More so than in the first leg . |
| 17 | But this effect was weaker in the Second World War than in the First . |
| 18 | Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply . |
| 19 | Generally there was much less anti-enemy hysteria in the Second World War than in the First ; but in the post-Pearl Harbor atmosphere the Japanese Americans ( the Nisei ) , mostly inhabitants of California , were rounded up and transported from their Pacific coast homes . |
| 20 | The increased likelihood of referral occurred among both male and female patients in the two groups of practices , although female patients between the ages of 5–24 and 45–74 in fundholding practices were slightly less likely to be referred in the second phase of the study than in the first ( table IV ) . |
| 21 | So far this year the value of sales has been 5 per cent higher than in the first ten months of 1990 . |
| 22 | The entrance to the " opportunity garden " is less obvious than in the first drawing . |
| 23 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 24 | That is , in spite of revising their reservation wages upwards , they are exiting faster in the second period than in the first period . |
| 25 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 26 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 27 | In conclusion , the population of England remained fairly stable for much of the fifteenth century , at a far lower level than in the first half of the fourteenth . |
| 28 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 29 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 30 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |