Example sentences of "often than [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered ! |
2 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
3 | Large examples are known , however , more often than not on the fringes of the main occupied areas , as at Ashton , Baldock , Bath , Irchester and Water Newton . |
4 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
5 | Saturday was the day when she and Cissie rolled up their sleeves and turned out enough pies and bread to last the whole week , more often than not with the dubious help of Richard . |
6 | Once you 've chopped off the top ten , there are mass mi middle , medium sized P L C's , the nine million to fifty million turnover er company and they 're looked after by some by major firms , some more often than not by the second tier firms , so we can see very much and we can penetrate those er that middle market situation , then these are the companies in the future that will er will probably be the big P L C's and also these it will be easier to get into these organisations er with the services that we have to look through to offer . |
7 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
8 | However , many women are forced into part time , low-grade jobs — more often than not in the public sector . |