Example sentences of "was [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand they were available , recruiting them was simpler than persuading workers to come out from England , and they could never leave to work elsewhere . |
| 2 | But what was simpler than to drive the car to Streatley , siphon petrol out of the Rolls into it ( possibly even siphon some into a can as well , to top it up near London ) and then drive back ? |
| 3 | In essence it was simpler than what she had suggested the previous night ; but the details were far more involved . |
| 4 | All young Libyans had learned that the Libyan political system was nearer than any other to Athenian popular democracy of the classical period , and they had learned a highly idealized version of the calmness , rationality and dignity of the proceedings of the ancient Greeks . |
| 5 | It was nearer than Linby now . |
| 6 | Half of Liverpool 's immigrants in 1851 came from Lancashire and most of the rest from Ireland , which in terms of travel costs was nearer than southern England . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought she was nearer than that . ’ |
| 8 | rang them up and he was dearer than all the blooming builders merchants ! |
| 9 | The voice was harsher than before . |
| 10 | The country reminded Riven of Skye ; it was harsher than Ralarth . |
| 11 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |
| 12 | His voice was harsher than she 'd ever heard before . |
| 13 | The sitting-room was tidier than when she had left it . |
| 14 | The interest charge , at £35m against £24m , was lower than many had expected . |
| 15 | The lakes were at their lowest levels for 20 years , and Chew was lower than I can ever remember . |
| 16 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 17 | Their response was lower than that of control animals . |
| 18 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |
| 19 | The Liberal Democrats ' vote on Thursday , 18 per cent , was lower than that secured by the Liberals under David Steel in February 1974 . |
| 20 | It was further reported ( Danas , 10 November 1987 ) that in the first nine months of 1987 there were 17 rapes in Kosovo , every one of which was between two members of the same ethnic group , and that in this period the incidence of rape in Kosovo was lower than in other parts of Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | The per capita expenditure in homeland schools in 1987/88 was lower than that in DET schools — with Kwazulu , for example , spending only 412 rand per pupil . |
| 22 | Overall , the standard was lower than she expected though she was impressed with the Germans , Sandra Schmidt and winner Jan Kellner who , she felt , was very stylish , fit and supporting . |
| 23 | He found that the intensity of the magnetic field within the circle was lower than that outside . |
| 24 | Invariably riding green ponies , his handicap at six was lower than it should have been . |
| 25 | Although the figure was lower than expected , BOC 's share price rose by 17p to 601p . |
| 26 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 27 | To pull out of the Sunday Madness gig when you did was lower than low . |
| 28 | But generally the level of violence in Cambodia during the election was lower than during the campaign . |
| 29 | The conductivity of the unsaturated carbon-bearing samples ( A3 , A4 ) at near surface conditions was lower than that when saturated with electrolyte , as expected , but increased with the application of confining pressure ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 30 | IBM said growth of its 1992 Unix business was lower than expected — it blames price competition and low margins . |