Example sentences of "larger [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A Roman legion was somewhat larger than a modern peacetime brigade in the British Army — six thousand troops .
2 Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory .
3 When the first CPR train reached Vancouver on 23 May 1888 , the depot on the waterfront was no larger than a wooden shed .
4 This recognition , combined with the notion that life has to be somehow larger than a physical notion , meant that this approach has been broadened .
5 The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion .
6 Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat .
7 The easy sociability which it offered was fostered by the fact that all its pubs , clubs , restaurants and delicatessens were squeezed into an area no larger than a square mile .
8 Ultimately , the literature on community interventions and organizing suggests that having control is larger than an individual phenomenon , but includes an interaction with life 's social and political systems .
9 The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps .
10 Greenpeace alleged in September 1990 that illegal toxic waste imports to the UK were three times larger than the legal trade .
11 Greenpeace has published an analysis showing that an illicit trade in toxic waste exists which is estimated to be three times larger than the legal trade .
12 Whether the clays remain as discrete particles or cluster together to form flocs or aggregates with diameters much larger than the individual component particles is often a function of these waters .
13 He was a huge dog , much larger than the average collie .
14 The next job was to plug in the PostScript card , which is no larger than the average credit card , and only three times as thick .
15 Thus when , i.e. the polymer chain is larger than the average hole size , the viscosity will be correspondingly high , whereas when , the viscosity will be low .
16 With a concrete pool it has to be appreciated at the outset that the excavation is going to be considerably larger than the finished pool , for room must be allowed for the layer of concrete .
17 Indeed , the excavation should be at least 15 cm ( 6 in ) larger than the finished pool to allow for a generous layer of concrete , and the soil should be rammed down tightly to prevent any subsidence and ensure a firm base ( Fig. 3a ) .
18 It is larger than the present office and will provide improved showroom and administrative facilities .
19 Roll it to a rectangle a little larger than the entire cake , about 32·5x38cm ( 13x15inches ) .
20 Unlike the single line delta with its articulating leading edges that pivot about the cross-spar joint , the second generation stunters with cross-spars fore and aft introduced the rigid frame.As the spine retained the sail on the neutral datum centreline , the sail pattern was made larger than the actual frame plan in order to obtain the conical camber which is the characteristic of the Rogallo design .
21 Throughout this fact sheet ( unless otherwise stated ) we use the 65+ cut off for both sexes ; the retired population is therefore larger than the elderly population .
22 The parliamentary council plan is supported in a confidential SNP document calling for a demonstration — larger than the European summit protest by 25,000 people — in April as a forerunner to the first sitting of a ‘ recalled ’ Scottish parliament .
23 However , the baryon fraction is at least 13 per cent for HCG62 , which is significantly larger than the global value , so the situation is not as simple as it first appeared .
24 The University will do its best to avoid large increases and guarantees that for students on course , fees will not rise by an amount larger than the annual rate of academic inflation .
25 Is the hearing community much larger than the deaf community ?
26 However , this is still about 500 times larger than the gravitational red shift that is to be measured .
27 The brochure said that the Pyramid of the Sun was over sixty metres high , larger than the Great Pyramid of Egypt , and the Street of the Dead more than three kilometres long , but even though it contained a plan , as well as photographs , I was still not prepared for the colossal dimensions of the place .
28 Perhaps these people feel , as do members of the local communities , that the coastline would not be in such urgent need of ‘ protection ’ were it not for the imminent threat of creation of a housing development , larger than the existing village of Dirleton , adjacent to it .
29 However a rough estimate of optimum switching angle can be obtained if the three torque/speed characteristics are approximated by constant torques , effective up to the maximum speed for each angle : The time taken and number of steps executed during acceleration to the maximum speed may be calculated , since for a constant torque , For constant accelerating torque the instantaneous velocity is proportional to time and therefore the distance travelled during acceleration is simply : so for each switching angle the acceleration time and distance can be found : The time taken to travel a total distance of 60 steps can be calculated for each switching angle , e.g. if the switching angle is 6 degrees the system executes the first 25 steps in 94.3 ms and the remaining steps at a constant speed of 540 steps per second : The time taken to decelerate has been neglected in this calculation because the retarding torque ( motor braking torque + load torque ) is , in all three cases , much larger than the accelerating torque ( motor accelerating torque - load torque ) .
30 Cantal farms appear to be generally larger than the French average .
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