Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know a lot more words than you know how to spell do n't you . |
| 2 | Nana 's better at the words than I am I forget them ! |
| 3 | in other words than mine , but hold us |
| 4 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 5 | I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me . |
| 6 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 7 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 8 | Many noticed he was happier in the company of the permanent secretaries than he was with his ministerial colleagues . |
| 9 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 10 | It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) . |
| 11 | The truth is that most of us eat ( and drink ) more calories than we think we are eating ( and drinking ) in the course of a day . |
| 12 | Sometimes — often , in fact — in the Western world , people consume more calories than they need to fuel the body with energy . |
| 13 | So even if they are inadvertently or wilfully slipping down a couple of hundred more calories than they intend in the course of a day , they might still find themselves clocking up a decent weight loss on the scales each week . |
| 14 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 15 | Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going . |
| 16 | And when you walk aerobically at 4 miles an hour , you will burn around five times more calories than you would being sedentary . |
| 17 | But wisely Mrs Christie saw that she would have much more difficulty seeing the world through juvenile spectacles than she would through Belgian ones . |
| 18 | By 1996 , Britain should again be exporting more cars than we import — for the first time since 1974 . |
| 19 | ‘ Particularly after the privatisation of the buses , people are even more dependent on their cars than they were before , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I know a lot more about cars than I have , I , I never used to know nothing about cars but |
| 21 | The feelings are no less intense for inspectors and headteachers than they are for students and teachers in their first appointment . |
| 22 | You got longer legs than me . ’ |
| 23 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 24 | There are more of these signals than we may realise . |
| 25 | ‘ Other people 'ave to , an' they 'ave more kids than us . ’ |
| 26 | Oddly , he finds that about 70 per cent of his clients end up buying very different homes than they originally intended . |
| 27 | Did you try out more walks than you eventually used ? |
| 28 | Windows'DDE and OLE permits much more complexity in data relationships than you 'll find in character-based systems , and the same technology provides scope for the emerging goodies of multimedia computer applications . |
| 29 | Rest assured , they have seen far hairier clients than you ! |
| 30 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |