Example sentences of "than their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 2 | Card publishers are keen to supply a wider range of outlets other than their traditional markets . |
| 3 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 4 | There could be no more revealing insight into the Government 's priorities than their obsessive concentration on the 8.7 per cent . |
| 5 | They earn a lot more , at the last count , averaging 4.63 an hour — though this was a lot less than their on-site colleagues , for they only earned when there was work . |
| 6 | Yet it should be remembered that the school-leaving age was not actually raised until after the Second World War and that the suggestion that they should receive secondary education was tainted by the official assumption that the children of the working class were innately less intelligent than their middle-class brethren . |
| 7 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 8 | The emphasis rhythm , inflection , tone of voice and above all the natural pauses convey more than their factual meaning . |
| 9 | Even in the engineering companies the role of the unions seemed to have been limited to ensuring that , in other than their temporary status , temporary workers were not disadvantaged and received the same fringe benefits ( except membership of company pension schemes ) as regular workers . |
| 10 | It was a faster car than their small Renault . |
| 11 | The families of the nobility have always fascinated the visiting public more than their historic homes and works of art . |
| 12 | This , added to physical fatigue , produced a considerable burden , especially as the average age of the full-time farmer was greater than their part-time counterparts . |
| 13 | Diesels have greater rate springs than their equivalent petrol models , as they are heavier vehicles . |
| 14 | Searchers not only express their subject needs in brief and concise terms but also tend to use a broad search formulation to access the bibliographic tool , i.e. , broader than their expressed topic . |
| 15 | In the case of the morning papers , it seems that papers such as The Times and the Daily Telegraph are much more difficult than their Swedish counterparts . |
| 16 | Viruses that produce many of their own enzymes are more versatile than their simpler colleagues , but even the most complex viruses depend at some stage on the proteins of the infected cell . |
| 17 | Most of the money is owed by people whose homes have been repossessed and sold for less than their outstanding mortgage . |
| 18 | They came to Raasay House on the evening of Wednesday , 8 September , and stayed for four nights , a shorter stay than their first spell on Skye . |
| 19 | Old World monkeys have narrow noses with downward pointing nostrils — like man 's — and can rotate their thumbs , which allows them more manipulative skills than their New World relations . |
| 20 | Before looking at the relationship between mortality rates and social class over the years , it is worth referring to some evidence which suggest that similar medical care benefits upper-class patients more than their lower-class counterparts . |
| 21 | Sephardic Jews , who are descended from Western Europe ( Spain and Portugal ; but also the Middle East and North Africa ) , expressed themselves through their own languages , but were always more ‘ intellectual ’ , more philosophical — in the Aristotelian sense - more scientific and commercial , and more open to syncretism ( e.g. with Islamic and Christian modes of thought ) than their Eastern brethren . |
| 22 | At all ages above 75 years women are more likely to be living in an institution than their male contemporaries . |
| 23 | At all ages older women are more likely to be living alone than their male contemporaries ( Figure 2.10 ) . |
| 24 | The Department of Employment 's survey of women who were of working age in 1980 ( Martin and Roberts , 1984 ) presents much evidence to explain why most women do not complete lengthy periods of pensionable service and why , where they have had access to occupational pension benefits , they tend to end up with lower weekly rates of pension and smaller lump sums than their male contemporaries . |
| 25 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 26 | Already for a number of years , employers have not been able to oblige women to retire at an earlier age than their male colleagues but by law must have a common retirement age that applies equally to both sexes . |
| 27 | However , even where , as in many public sector occupations , membership of an employer 's pension scheme was ( until 1988 ) automatic for permanent full-time staff , including women , horizontal segregation ensured that women , typically , ended their working lives with lower pension benefits than their male colleagues . |
| 28 | Most of the friars became parish priests , and nuns received pensions , although they were probably more vulnerable to the change in fortune than their male counterparts and there were no church posts for them . |
| 29 | As Brah and Deem point out , Afro-Caribbean young women are stereotyped as ‘ pushy ’ , but achieve better in schools than their male counterparts . |
| 30 | Young women who offend often receive quite different treatment than their male counterparts . |