Example sentences of "than the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To hold the contrary , it has been well said , seems to assert ‘ that a bird in the hand is worth less than the same bird in the bush . ’ |
| 2 | The weighted average capacity factor apportions a higher figure to better performance from bigger reactors , since it is better to produce 85 per cent of the rated output from an 800 MW power station than the same fraction from a 400 MW station . |
| 3 | The blood that the donor gives up is less precious to her ( social groups in vampires are female groups ) than the same quantity of blood is to the recipient . |
| 4 | Nurse managers have a responsibility for the settings in which patients are cared for which is far greater than the same responsibility of nurses at large , simply because they are employed in positions which enable them to make appropriate representations . |
| 5 | Even allowing it the benefit of this doubt , our hypothetical small party would be very unlikely to end up with more than the same percentage of seats , 8.4 , as the Irish party . |
| 6 | In the second unit the patient will clearly score more APACHE II points and will , therefore , have a higher predicted mortality than the same patient in the first unit . |
| 7 | The first day 's publication of the photos produced an incredible increase in sales of 482,118 more than the same day the week before . |
| 8 | They point out that in many cases they are not only far cheaper than the same holiday bought through a travel agent , but also often offer a unique experience in leadership , endurance and community service . |
| 9 | It is now common in most accounts to begin with the proviso that the designation ‘ nouveau roman ’ is merely a convenient quasi-journalistic or even marketing label attached to an otherwise heterogeneous collection of writers , sharing little other than the same publishing house at one time or another ( Editions de Minuit ) . |
| 10 | The extent of circulation and the prominence given to defamatory remarks are factors which will influence the final award : a libel in the national press comes more expensive than the same libel in a small local newspaper . |
| 11 | Some items were also tried out with Imperial units and these were often much easier than the same question with metric units . |
| 12 | Frequent sugary snacks do more damage to teeth than the same amount of sugar all in one go , so try to limit sugary foods to mealtimes . |
| 13 | If it is proposed to make employees redundant , it is suggested that the vendor should commence consultation with the unions no later than the same time as the statutory consultation period imposed upon him by the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992 , s188 . |
| 14 | I suspect they 're better at this stage than the same time last year . |
| 15 | Therefore , a continuous sound , even though it might vary in its pitch , is less distracting than the same sound interspersed with silence . |
| 16 | Cars such as the Vauxhall Cavalier SRi , Rover 416 GSi and Ford Sierra 2.0i Ghia are worth little more than the same model with a lower spec . |
| 17 | Lot 45 ( est. $20–25,000 ) a Tiffany mixed-metals pitcher , with copper and mokume gourds , brought a strong $37,000 , eleven thousand more than the same model brought at Christie 's last January . |
| 18 | Clearly , listening to a Robert Johnson record now , in Britain , is very different from dancing to him playing live in a black bar in Mississippi in 1936 ; and there are probably consequential differences in the music itself , too ( for example , Johnson would at the very least be constrained by the time-limits imposed by the record form — as all musicians , even to some extent on LPs , are ; thus , in some ways a Duke Ellington concert , in a ‘ bourgeois ’ concert hall , using written parts , might turn out a more ‘ oral ’ experience than the same piece encapsulated on a twelve-inch record ) . |
| 19 | By April 1986 , 186,711 men had been without work for more than five years , a sum nearly five times greater than the same group four decades earlier . |
| 20 | True , they have feeble strength and toughness , but with three wounds they are more resilient than the same frontage of Goblins or Orcs . |
| 21 | A few years ago , a Government publication entitled ’ Practical Ways to Crack Crime ’ stated : ’ A stolen car is about 200 times more likely to be involved in an accident than the same car driven by its owner . ’ |
| 22 | Over the last three months they rose only 0.5 per cent by value on the previous three months , but still some 12 per cent more than the same period in 1988 . |
| 23 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 24 | It was still lower than the same period last year . |
| 25 | A survey by Jordans has found that the number of companies created in the first half of this year was 3.1% lower than the same period last year . |
| 26 | The fall of 17 per cent in company liquidations for the third quarter of 1991 brings us down to a figure which is still 44 per cent higher than the same period ; it does not yet represent a net recovery . |
| 27 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 28 | For the purists a bag without a zip is going to be the most efficient at keeping warmth in and will always be lighter than the same bag with a zip . |
| 29 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |
| 30 | Marginally more credible than the same label 's Oceanic , they 're still hugely annoying on the appalling ‘ Startouchers ’ . |