Example sentences of "than the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fourth year pupils were the principal subjects of the study as they would be members of their school for a full school year and were likely to have a lower absentee rate than the fifth year . |
| 2 | The Council 's Rules of procedure provide that the last Article of a regulation shall specify the commencement date if the date is other than the twentieth day following publication . |
| 3 | And what better time to consider this dead end than the twentieth anniversary of 1967 , that pivotal point at which sixties beat music leapt into the beyond , and the very notion of ‘ the progressive ’ was born . |
| 4 | Derek Fraser 's The Evolution of the British Welfare State ( see n. 9 ) is a good general historical textbook but is stronger on the nineteenth than the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Virtually every year the eighth , eighth year always does get better than the ninth year . |
| 6 | We were lucky to last more than the first fairway together . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel there is a need for experience in all positions and I 'm not blaming James for anything other than the first goal against Chesterfield . |
| 8 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 9 | For species actually to act with a sense of past and future history would be a far more radical departure than the first land creature crawling out of the sea . |
| 10 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 11 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 12 | We are more used to talking about facts as causes than the first criticism allows . |
| 13 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 14 | Strega turned the second lap at 475mph , six miles per hour faster than the first lap and six miles per hours slower than Rare Bear 's 1991 winning speed . |
| 15 | Delighted bosses at Liberty , which opened 19 of its 21 stores , estimated they had taken 10 per cent more than the first day of last year 's winter sales . |
| 16 | but there 's nothing smaller than the first size |
| 17 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 18 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 19 | Since this row does n't hold the comb , it is less stretched , so therefore firmer , than the first row of a welt knitting in the basic , or conventional way . |
| 20 | Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’ |
| 21 | Active and vital service seemed more important than the first pip . |
| 22 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 23 | So the second pulse then , is mu it evokes a much weaker current than the first pulse did . |
| 24 | It was , he contended , the first manifestation of the child 's sexuality ; its roots lay a good deal earlier than the first birthday and the very experience of the " oral " relationship of early feeding provided the basis of relationships — for many people long after infancy . |
| 25 | Choosing this road is likely to cost more than the first option , but you will at least ensure that your doors are the best that money can buy . |
| 26 | Choosing this road is likely to cost a lot more than the first option . |
| 27 | Again the same result — plenty of eggs but only eight young fish , two more than the first brood . |
| 28 | It will be at least three times larger than the first show , held last year , and will represent every area of self build , from finance to land plots , as well as house design ‘ packages ’ and most related building and interior products . |
| 29 | Was I making a monster more evil than the first creature ? |
| 30 | Otherwise under section 46(2) the accused should be brought before a magistrate as soon as is practicable and in any event , not later than the first sitting after he has been charged . |