Example sentences of "than the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The magnetic materials used in practice have a unc several orders of magnitude higher than the Er of practical dielectric materials . |
| 2 | In the example quoted , the first line leaves unstated the place to which Israel is to return ; the B-line specifies the full significance of " return " in A. It is true of course that it is not only that the B-line is more specific than the A-line but also that the A is more specific than the B. Such cases do not negate the parallelism of greater precision ; they are a subset of the examples of our feature . |
| 3 | In fact it looks if if anything , the greenbelt boundary is slightly wider than the Greater York area boundary . |
| 4 | This package retails for a pound more than the Ascom/UltraFAX bundle , yet both modem and software are inferior . |
| 5 | There are no central statistics on the number of fatalities on school trips , though obviously individuals have been killed in accidents less newsworthy than the Land 's End and Cairngorms tragedies . |
| 6 | He lay beside her and she knew a primal terror , old as hills — older far than the Scarabae . |
| 7 | There were no ‘ off-the-shelf ’ prototypes to work towards other than the DGH cure focused service with all the faults already commented on . |
| 8 | The Board of Admiralty had been well aware since 1955 that the US Navy 's Polaris-armed submarines might become the capital ships of the future , and might prove to be more invulnerable as mobile launch platforms for the nuclear deterrent than the US Air Force 's Skybolt , if it too was successfully developed . |
| 9 | The fact that this was the first downsizing show to be held in Japan is in itself an indication of the major change taking place in the Japanese computer market , which has been even more mainframe-centric than the US and Europe , and indicates the strong power of the economics of small computing . |
| 10 | According to Israel 's Ministry of Industry & Trade the country has about twice the number of scientists and engineers per capita involved in research and development work than the US and Japan and five times the number in South Korea : 135 per 10,000 in the workforce against 70 per 10,000 in the US , 65 in Japan and 25 in South Korea . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Also , other data suggest that the informal exchange of preliminary information between the product and process engineers is more frequent in Japan than the US . |
| 14 | These men know a lot about hijacks ; much more than the US Marines or , probably , your own soldiers , Prime Minister . |
| 15 | To explain this point ( which Barro ( 1977a ) recognizes in a footnote , p.107 fn. 15 ) and also to demonstrate that Barro 's results appear to hold true for countries other than the US , we shall outline a model similar to Barro 's which Attfield , Demery and Duck ( 1981a ) ( henceforth ADD ) applied to UK annual data for the period 1946–77 . |
| 16 | By the same year the population of Nigeria is expected to reach more than 300 million , making it larger than the US . |
| 17 | We have based our estimate of fees for the preparation of the memorandum on the facts that the UK document will be far more detailed than the US document and be based on the report of [ Date ] . |
| 18 | It should be borne in mind that there are always problems of definition and of classification in compiling figures such as these and also that all the figures for currencies other than the US dollar have had to be converted to dollars and hence depend upon the exchange rate used . |
| 19 | Furthermore Eisenhower and his staff were less disturbed than the US Joint Chiefs of Staff by the actual nationalization of the canal . |
| 20 | His brilliant shot-making erased the Hope Classic record by four strokes and his total was also four shots better than the US Tour record for bettering par . |
| 21 | The ‘ special relationship ’ has long been a myth , one which the UK has more of an interest in perpetuating than the US , where the reality is that Britain is regarded as a second-rank nation . |
| 22 | The hall was bigger than the Cromarty Hall in the village ; it could accommodate more local people and more of the television cameras that by now were multiplying daily , along with their crews , reporters , producers , and the army of newspaper journalists and feature writers that by this time had gathered in Orkney . |
| 23 | It mattered less than the Fourniers ? ’ |
| 24 | Forester 's fiction is as meticulous in detail and as active in plots as that of O'Brian , yet the Hornblower novels are basically romantic adventures , built on sentiment as much as on action and answering more directly than the Aubrey tales to the simplest conventions of the adventure story . |
| 25 | The Kenway depot , the court was told , had been a ‘ happy place ’ where a few employees had gone about beaming from ear to ear , high on drugs , and where they ‘ did a better dance than the Kwik-Fit fitters ’ . |
| 26 | Mr Kerrigan : ‘ They did a better dance than the Kwik-Fit fitters — is that your position ? |
| 27 | The CDS , which is more right wing than the PSD , has two deputies in the Regional Parliament . |
| 28 | Spiders have a better strength than wolves ( 4 as opposed to 3 ) and although their WS is lower it is still better than the Goblin rider 's . |
| 29 | Overlooking the railway line , the new dual carriageway that runs alongside it and the surrounding housing development these buildings look even more dishevelled and uncared for than the Delphi Centre . |
| 30 | Before you know it , it 's time for lunch and there 's nowhere more appropriate to stop for that , than The Swan at Whitchurch . |