Example sentences of "far [adj] [subord] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is far larger than the CIA but much less well known . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
| 12 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Agreement tends to be far better when the electronegativity difference between the two ions is high . |
| 16 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 20 | Because it is far smaller than the KGB with a staff of around 6,000 the GRU is more efficient . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In practice materials generally only reach a small fraction of their theoretical strength before they break and so the release of strain energy is usually far less than the energy which would be provided by an equivalent weight of explosive . |
| 27 | By the end of the fifties , Washington had agree to help improve the Iranian armed forces more rapidly , but American military aid was still far less than the Shah wanted . |
| 28 | This is somewhat less than France ( 19 per cent ) , Japan ( 21 per cent ) or the Netherlands ( 22 per cent ) and far less than the U.S.A. ( 44 per cent ) , ( DES , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | But the yields on their bonds varied by far less than the ratings would suggest . |
| 30 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |