Example sentences of "than the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking specifically at our concerns with regard to erm Hambledon , erm in Hambledon the area search would erm extend to about eighty two kilometres , that 's square kilometres , erm and contain six , this contains six villages , er with populations ranging from a hundred and fourteen to nine hundred and seventy one , erm proposed new settlement of fourteen hundred hou erm dwellings , er would be four times erm greater than the largest settlement in this area , Easingwold is the nearest small town , that 's about the equivalent erm equivalent size in terms of number of dwellings , erm we believe that it would er dominate the existing settlement pattern in the area , and would introduce erm a dislocation erm into er a settlement pattern . |
| 2 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 3 | The flunkey hesitated , then responded by answering the last question first — with a figure that was nearly four times larger than the largest sum I had thought I might try asking . |
| 4 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 5 | The Renoir NT is up to 12 times faster than the fastest VGA with resolutions of 1280x1024 in 16 colour mode and 1024X 768 in 256 colour mode … |
| 6 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 7 | The selection of the preferred bidder will be made in conjunction with the client and may well hinge on factors other than the highest price ( i.e. intentions or nature of consideration ) . |
| 8 | the file generation number will be one greater than the highest generation of any file with the same name and extension as the outcoming binary file , held in the user 's account . |
| 9 | And in fact , on the County Council 's own figures , which have g got completions since nineteen seventy seven , you 'll find that nineteen seventy seven to nineteen seventy nine , have higher house building rates , than the highest rate of the nineteen e the highest year of the nineteen eighties . |
| 10 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 11 | Forty-one per cent of these diabetics had levels of malondialdehyde formation greater than the highest result seen in the control group , and this difference was highly significant ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 13 | The following techniques are outlawed under s3 : restricting the right to bid to more than one article ; goods being knocked down for a price less than the highest bid ; or where there are " free " gifts . |
| 14 | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared ; for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer . |
| 15 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 16 | It was totally dark , blacker and denser than the darkest night — even after dawn should have come — as the thick cloud of ash hung over them , cutting off the light from the sun . |
| 17 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 18 | If there are enough of these then agreeing on a candidate may prove difficult , leaving the panel wide open to the danger of selecting the one candidate none of them feels strongly about rather than the best person for the job . |
| 19 | With the benefit of the latest steam-XXXX turbines , the new plant is planned to achieve thermal efficiency of 52 per cent — a 20 per cent increase over that of normal coal power stations , and 12 per cent higher than the best performance of nuclear plants . |
| 20 | If you were to smooth out all the material there is in the universe into a uniform sort of sea of particles , you would find that the density was just about one atom in every cubic metre , which is far better than the best vacuum that you can ever make on earth by artificial means . |
| 21 | Brown also faults the NT desktop manager as being much less flexible than the best Unix has to offer . |
| 22 | This can then be searched over a Local Area Network by up to 25 users simultaneously , a speed performance ten times better than the best CD-ROM can normally offer . |
| 23 | Derek Clark says that it will change sailing by forcing people to realise that sometimes championships are won by people who are the right weight and size rather than the best sailor … he says they 're hoping to examine the skill levels … it also means that more people can go racing … |
| 24 | Mr Yeltsin 's chief military aide , Mr Dmitry Volkgonov , said : ‘ We have to find a compromise because the worst negotiations are better than the best war . ’ |
| 25 | We washed this down with iced tea , which in the heat of a Texas summer tastes better than the best wine could . |
| 26 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 27 | None other than the greatest mathematician in the world . |
| 28 | BRAINTREE District Council 's former direct labour organisation has put in a bid to reroof 27 houses which is £150,000 more than the lowest tender . |
| 29 | Scots spend £7.40 a week on tobacco , more than 50pc more than the lowest region , the south-east of England , which spends just £4.50 . |
| 30 | Five shillings ( 2s. less than the lowest amount which , according to Rowntree , could support an individual for a week ) was held to be too low . |