Example sentences of "than the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We spent a lot of time recording it and it is a lot better than the first album . |
| 32 | For example , the first syllable of ‘ poetic ’ is more prominent than the first syllable of ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 33 | The more normal condition is that it will only be available to those shareholders of the target who have accepted both the share offer and the cash alternative not later than the first closing date . |
| 34 | This is far less crude than the first example and propels the argument forward by its incorporation . |
| 35 | Recollettas our Spanish investment paid off handsomely , profits more than doubled and Marker is er , the seven day a week sports paper , is now the er second biggest paper in Spain and has a higher readership than the first paper . |
| 36 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 37 | than the first flush of youth and the first lick of eyeshadow . |
| 38 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 39 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 40 | It was less acrimonious than the first time , but much more painful . |
| 41 | It was worse than the first time . |
| 42 | They were , if that was possible , even more ferocious than the first time he had kissed her . |
| 43 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 44 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 45 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 46 | ‘ This is going to be more difficult than the first match , but I feel we 're ready for it . ’ |
| 47 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 48 | ‘ But it raises fewer objections than the first theory , that he came in half-naked and armed with a razor and yet there are no obvious signs that Berowne put up any resistance . ’ |
| 49 | In 1930 they scored 132 goals , five more than the first team in their record Championship year . |
| 50 | Yet she reached the station where she got out without having progressed any further than the first page . |
| 51 | We , also , have to be able to goto Blackburn and come away with a result if we expect to advance in the Cup any further than the 4th round . |
| 52 | What about the form United have never been further than the 4th round . |
| 53 | Time spent outside this range for longer than the 90th percentile in normal subjects implies an abnormal pH exposure . |
| 54 | That the Bill shall be presented to the House not later than the seventh day after this day ; |
| 55 | This table of the Nations in Genesis 10 can hardly be more ancient than the seventh century B.C. Not much later Ezechiel or one of his disciples included Yavan in the lamentation for Tyre ( 27.13–19 ) . |
| 56 | The Cepheid variable R Crucis , between Acrux and Epsilon , is an easy binocular object , though it never becomes much brighter than the seventh magnitude . |
| 57 | The most notable English progressive was Walter Porter ( c. 1588–1659 ) , who claimed Monteverdi as his ‘ good Friend and Maestro ’ and certainly seems to have been acquainted with the master 's Seventh Book ; indeed one madrigal , ‘ Wake Sorrow , Wake ’ , can be dated to 1615 , earlier than the Seventh Book . |
| 58 | This represents a more positive attitude towards culture than the previous three positions , although it is more critical than the second position listed here . |
| 59 | No I think erm para five three I think was probably one of the er unless the panel found that some of policies were unduly restricted and detailed or er which were not a struc structural significance erm yeah probably the first rather than the second reference . |
| 60 | In addition , there was a strong tendency for the remaining pauses to occur in the first half of a clause rather than the second half . |