Example sentences of "than [art] average [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 2 | To complete this numerical picture , the average spend per head of further education was almost fifty five pound per head , nearly five pound fifty more than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 3 | He claimed the new charges were still ‘ significantly less ’ than the average total cost of a single prescription item . |
| 4 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 5 | It is doubly unfair because it hits thousands of workers who are earning less than the average industrial wage . |
| 6 | Some 4,500 stand tickets priced at Fijian $15 — more than the average daily wage — sold out within two days . |
| 7 | I 'd always suspected big-wave riders had to have more cojones than the average human being , and there was at least one of that species who seemed to bear out my hypothesis . |
| 8 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 9 | The typical Orbison single contained more drama and incident than the average 90-minute movie of the time , and ‘ Running Scared ’ was one of his finest . |
| 10 | Estimation of unit costs is always extremely difficult , particularly when the aim is , quite properly , to assess the basic cost of providing a necessary service , rather than the average discretionary expenditure on all service provision . |
| 11 | Trying to claim that , in spite of those subsidies , average net farm income is lower than the average Scottish wage of £14,100 a year wo n't wash according to Scottish Office reckoning , because that comparison is not valid . |
| 12 | But they live in a physically impoverished environment which provides far fewer amenities than the average long-stay ward — the cost is often less than a third that of a hospital bed . |
| 13 | Not that it was any sort of crackdown on muggers or pickpockets , but in the week before the Season of Goodwill , the Marks and Spencer store on Orchard Street gets more bomb threats than the average American Embassy east of Cyprus . |
| 14 | A roster for crusts had to be started as these contained more bread than the average thin slice . |
| 15 | The Manual English group ( who had parents who were ‘ language competent ’ deaf persons ) were better than the average manual group ( whose deaf parents ' written language was ‘ grossly deviant from standard English ’ ) . |
| 16 | North of Clachan Bridge it has remained as a clear bench on either side of a strait no wider than an average English lowland river . |