Example sentences of "larger than [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size of the shop floor in a supermarket is usually about 600 square metres ( slightly larger than a tennis court ) . |
| 2 | She had some olive oil ; it was in a small jar , possibly a tiny jar no larger than a perfume bottle . |
| 3 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 4 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 5 | No larger than a desk diary , the CompuAdd Companion weighs a remarkable 4.4 pounds — yet has all the performance and functionality of a full-sized 286 PC . |
| 6 | I marvelled at it , a frog not even an inch long , no larger than a thumb nail . |
| 7 | Dangling from the hook came a length of rope and a piece of leather larger than a dog collar , large enough , indeed , to have fitted a goat . |
| 8 | The only problem was that the coastline awarded to Poland lacked a single port larger than a fishing village along its entire length and was therefore virtually useless to a modern state . |
| 9 | A scientist tells me : ‘ It will come in a size no larger than a Calor Gas cylinder . |
| 10 | It was a scale drawing of a miniature microphone , perfectly reproduced , which was in reality no larger than a sugar cube . |
| 11 | In burns — any third degree burn ( see below ) , any second degree burn ( blistering and loss of the top surface of the skin — very sore and painful ) occurring on sensitive skin ( face , hands , genitals ) or second degree burn larger than a hand size occurring anywhere else . |
| 12 | The pixel size of the TV-scanned image is much larger than the pixel size generated by a drum scanner . |
| 13 | The presentation appearance of the horizontal moon , for instance , can properly , though falsely , be said to be larger than the presentation appearance of the meridian moon . |
| 14 | Roll out the pastry thinly on a lightly floured surface to a circle of about 2.5cm/1inch larger than the pie plate . |
| 15 | The value of the European database market increased by 37% to $231m and now constitutes 45% of the worldwide market ( larger than the US portion ) . |
| 16 | The value of the European database market increased by 37% to $231m and now constitutes 45% of the worldwide market ( larger than the US share ) . |
| 17 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 18 | In terms of Figure 17–2 , it is highly questionable whether the cost saving rectangle B was larger than the dead-weight burden triangle A. |
| 19 | The Temple of Artemis at Ephesos was even larger than the Didyma temple and measured 391 feet by 211 feet in plan . |
| 20 | It is larger than the Petra model , but Lorraine points out it does have a diffuser attachment , six heat/speed settings and a removable filter . |
| 21 | The purebred Charolais calf is not as heavy as those of the Maine-Anjou and Blonde d'Aquitaine at an average birthweight of 45.5kg ( males ) and 41.8kg ( females ) , but it is larger than the Limousin calf and crossbreds are usually larger than those sired by Limousin or Simmental . |
| 22 | Secondly , the third-floor accommodation , lit only by the small clerestory windows of the nave ( composed of shallower paired lancets ) , managed to obtain the necessary amount of daylight from the glazing being placed at the rear of the original traceried stonework where the splayed internal window-revels generate an area exposed to daylight which is larger than the window area seen from outside ( Fig 46 ) . |
| 23 | In other words , to give , to the question , ‘ Why , on looking at the horizontal moon , would you believe it to be larger than the meridian moon if you had no reason to think otherwise ? ’ the answer , ‘ Because it appears larger ’ , is , if it means ‘ Because I perceive it as larger ’ to give no answer at all . |
| 24 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 25 | The dynamic insert is much larger than the electret type ( about double the diameter ) . |
| 26 | The socially efficient quantity of labour input would then be much larger than the equilibrium level under current tax rates . |
| 27 | The breed is generally larger than the Beef Shorthorn , with mature bulls averaging 900kg and cows 600–635kg . |
| 28 | The slug had missed the bone and major blood vessels and had not spread during its brief passage , so the exit wound was only slightly larger than the entry wound . |
| 29 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 30 | Eventually , if given enough care and space , the new cuttings will grow stronger and larger than the mother plant herself . |