Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he knew from experience it was often best with Blanche simply to answer a question she asked rather than seek to question why she posed it . |
| 2 | I then asked rather than erm wait for er Dr to come back , er we changed onto a different product which did n't involve conductivity but before doing that , I asked for ten pallets of to be run off with the nutrient mix reduced from two K Gs per metre to one point five K Gs per metre . |
| 3 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 4 | And although the sex was something I endured rather than enjoyed , it was a learning experience . |
| 5 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 6 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |
| 7 | Even Lou 's piranha snapping now began to seem like something read rather than experienced . |
| 8 | For all its professionalism , impeccable timing and diction , it glowed rather than crackled , more especially during the central act . |
| 9 | In 1988 , Hewden Stuart made less than 15 per cent of its profits from selling equipment rather than renting . |
| 10 | Bookings made less than four days in advance must be paid for not later than fifteen minutes before the performance . |
| 11 | ‘ Last year he mostly caddied for Lars Persson , who finished around twenty-fifth in the Order of Merit and so he probably made less than five thousand pounds . |
| 12 | In the case of bookings made less than 6 weeks prior to departure the full amount is payable at the time of booking . |
| 13 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 14 | But still by 1910 the LCC housed less than 2 per cent of its population . |
| 15 | He was a proud , caring president of the Cricketers ' Association , especially during the difficult Packer years , the implications of which he read better than any . |
| 16 | They held Grimma in awe because of the way she shouted at the men and read better than anyone . |
| 17 | Mohammed Azharuddin 's side have bowled , batted , caught and fought better than England . |
| 18 | It is also very fast , especially using the parallel cable option , and gave transfer rates in our test setup that averaged better than 4 megabytes per minute . |
| 19 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 20 | Lose a ride to one of your best friends , on the horse people had said you rode better than anyone else — that too was racing . |
| 21 | Fundamental science was a casualty of the ‘ period of stagnation ’ — it got less than 9% of Soviet spending on science in 1988 . |
| 22 | Gradually his playing became better than his singing . |
| 23 | Perhaps they succeeded better than they deserved . |
| 24 | He quickly tried to put the record straight by claiming he had simply meant they operated better than before they held their own funds . |
| 25 | Surprisingly , it helped rather than threatened his self-control . |
| 26 | But the best public art ( as Venice proves ) is architectural art , the enrichment of buildings at which the Victorians excelled rather than extraneous pieces of sculpture and other items dotted around the streets . |
| 27 | Will he commission a report to consider in detail and with expertise the fluctuations to which he referred rather than , as he has , jumping to his own conclusions about why such fluctuations should exist ? |
| 28 | Eager to keep together , they tended to widen any track they used rather than tramp along it in single file . |
| 29 | But the road that ran from the town , called Théovard , by-passed Les Glycines five hundred yards to the north , and we dismounted rather than run the motor cycle over the pitted lane . |
| 30 | But I just fled rather than talk to her . |