Example sentences of "greater than [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of ageing people to iatrogenic disease is greater than with any other age group . |
| 2 | Firms ' financing needs are greater than at any time since the 1974 oil shock . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the number of committed Jacobites in Parliament , although greater than at any other time in Anne 's reign , was still a small minority , and most Tories appear to have been committed to the Hanoverian Succession , though with varying degrees of enthusiasm . |
| 4 | As Table 3.4 columns 4 and 5 show , the discount houses ' business is overwhelmingly in sterling and their ‘ sight ’ liabilities are far greater than for any other banks . |
| 5 | The range of DUAO obtained was much greater than for any other group ( Fig 4 ) ( maximum value 1.8 , minimum -2.8 , mean ( SD ) 0.04 ( 1.05 ) ) . |
| 6 | As a result of the cut-back in production by the steel industry 's customers and the ‘ dumping ’ of subsidized special steel imports , the numbers of people employed in metal manufacture have declined enormously in recent years : between mid-1979 and mid-1983 the reduction in the numbers employed in this sector was greater than in any other sector of the economy ( Department of Employment 1983 : 511 ) . |
| 7 | However , the range and complexity of learned behaviour in humans is far greater than in any other species . |
| 8 | The speed of action of any agent may be different : the rate of chemical weathering in the equatorial regions appears to be greater than in any other part of the earth . |