Example sentences of "far [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are a great many people , quite sane , quite balanced , quite worthy of respect , who , in the privacy of their psyches , believe in things far stranger than the divinity of Hernan Cortés . |
| 2 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 3 | The work of a senior local government officer is , therefore , far broader than the confines of a single department or even a single local authority . |
| 4 | It will provide massive rebates for those who are worse off ; and it will be welcomed by the majority of the public , who will realise that it is far fairer than the community charge , that it is progressive and that it will work . |
| 5 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
| 6 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
| 7 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 8 | But , even within such a system the role of nations was not likely to be central because the main players in such a game would be units far larger than the states that most of the characterist , ie , separatist , nationalist agitations of the late 20th century were designed to form . |
| 9 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 10 | It is far larger than the CIA but much less well known . |
| 11 | Statistics also show that while the crime rate has increased regularly for all groups , the rise in female crime has been far steeper than the rise in male crime . |
| 12 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 13 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 14 | A polite refusal to comment further is far better than a panic reply . |
| 15 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 16 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
| 17 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 18 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
| 19 | Moreover , some of the small bodies that reach the Earth could come from regions of the PFM far colder than the region where the Earth formed . |
| 20 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 21 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 22 | Because it is far smaller than the KGB with a staff of around 6,000 the GRU is more efficient . |
| 23 | Flaws in crystals at the atomic level are far smaller than the pits etched in a laser disc 's surface , so crystals can potentially pack more information into a given area . |
| 24 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 25 | If you thrash a horse it will hurt but if you touch it with a whip it 's a tactile thing which is far less than a horse nudging another one |
| 26 | The idea needs a lot of working up , of course , but far less than an SEC , and I really believe that it would be worth doing . |
| 27 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 28 | Furthermore , positioning of this fragment upstream of the HSV-tk gene promoter stimulates transcription 2–3 times over control values , far less than the activity observed for this fragment in the homologous promoter , indicating that full activity of this fragment requires sequences located in the proximal part of the promoter . |
| 29 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 30 | This argument is meaningful only for lines longer than , say , 40 km as the inherent discrepancy is so slight on shorter distances that the error on the ground is far less than the sizes of marker sites involved . |