Example sentences of "larger than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 2 | Many-celled bodies make it possible for genes to manipulate the world , using tools built on a scale that is orders of magnitude larger than the scale of single cells . |
| 3 | It is larger than the whole of the European Community combined . |
| 4 | It is a fact that Macmillan 's turnover in this publishing area is larger than the whole of Routledge . |
| 5 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 6 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 7 | The diocese was larger than the diocese of Durham and more varied ; industry on Teesside , moors of the North Riding , wolds of the East Riding , the plain of York , cities like York and Hull . |
| 8 | The plastic tube is perforated with holes slightly larger than the thickness of an average maggot . |
| 9 | The displacement looked to be of considerable extent , much larger than the chunk of 2020 which had brought me to 1816 , or the chunk of some mysterious medieval land which had arrived earlier on my front doorstep . |
| 10 | Line the bottom of the basin only with paper by cutting out a circle of paper about 5cm ( 2inches ) larger than the base of the bowl . |
| 11 | Clear off all loose top soil within an area slightly larger than the size of the workshop . |
| 12 | Use a large landing net , somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch . |
| 13 | Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom , we can not hope to " look " at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way . |
| 14 | It must be appreciated that , although the population of the world is about a million times larger than the population of a large village , the model needed to make a reasonable study of some major world trends and problems is not necessarily much larger or more complex than the village model . |
| 15 | It is easy to cope with this in the TRP framework by setting to some large number K ( larger than the sum of the given s will do ) . |
| 16 | You will then need to drill a hole in each of the four corners , about 13mm ( ½in ) in from each side , using a drill bit that is slightly larger than the diameter of the four bolts you intend to use . |
| 17 | The value of coconut products consumed within the island was larger than the value of exports , but substantial amounts of coconut oil and copra were sent overseas . |
| 18 | It also recommended that all equity transactions should be published immediately , except those larger than the value of NMS , whereby publication will occur within 90 minutes . |
| 19 | ( iv ) Remove these outer cells by pipetting the embryos through a flame-polished micropipette with an internal diameter slightly larger than the clump of inside cells or ICM . |
| 20 | More often , Cade exacted a bond for a sum larger than the amount of cash advanced . |
| 21 | As the prevalence of a high waist-hip ratio among healthy women is larger than the prevalence of obesity ( 15% and 5% respectively in our study ) body fat distribution apparently has more impact on fertility than obesity . |
| 22 | Most are no larger than the palm of a man 's hand , but even spiders this small can have a deadly poisonous bite . |
| 23 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |