Example sentences of "far [adj] [noun] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pop stars are far nicer people than rock stars . |
| 2 | She was delighted by the success of her bravery , because she was far happier talking than dancing . |
| 3 | The Reds dropped a few small bombs , killed far fewer people than calculation suggests and ignored militarily-attractive targets . |
| 4 | Worthy candidates for appointment to high ministerial office are in short supply : prestige and departmental responsibility bring TDs far less credit than service to their constituents . |
| 5 | From the user 's point of view , the source of a requested item is of far less interest than speed of supply . |
| 6 | ‘ Deano ’ is England potential , one of the new highly-educated and articulate young pros due far more remuneration than county cricket can provide . |
| 7 | Ivor Crewe has drawn attention to the political significance of the more important social trends : twice as many manual workers are now in the private sector as in the public sector ; there are far more home-owners than council tenants among them , and nearly as many live in the south as in the north and Scotland combined . |
| 8 | In each of these episodes , Pynchon releases far more information than Stencil registers , so that evidence proliferates far beyond the latter 's tendentious inferences . |
| 9 | Similarly , girth of the penis makes little difference since direction and technique of thrust in intercourse have far more effect than closeness of contact . |
| 10 | In a world where money and material reward are held in far higher esteem than quality of life , their response will be predictable . |
| 11 | This greater reliance on context means that the branch of linguistics termed ‘ pragmatics ’ ( e.g. Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) is likely to be of far greater significance than semantics of syntax in those material culture studies which investigate the object 's communicative abilities . |
| 12 | In the history of science theoria has usually been accorded far greater importance than praxis . |
| 13 | Although most shrub roses make strong self-supporting growth , a few are so lax and flexible that mature specimens have far greater width than height . |
| 14 | To a far greater extent than service industries , it was the victim of militant trades unionism , restrictive practices , nationalisation , state intervention , tax distortion , planning controls and over-regulation . |