Example sentences of "than [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pattern is not greatly different from that reported by Jevons for Victorian Britain — the family on $35 000 paying , if anything , a lower percentage than the household on $10000 a year . |
| 2 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 3 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 4 | Wages , for those who can find work , are unlikely to be more than the equivalent of $15 a month , paid in clumsy wads of devalued roubles . |
| 5 | Now , Harry was certain , Cornelius meant more than the length of time a middle-aged man should give himself to recover from influenza . |
| 6 | But by the mid-1980s , after more than a decade of discussion the G-77 had been unable to get the industrialised countries to agree to substitute the mandatory ‘ shall ’ for the advisory ‘ should ’ in the draft Code ( Zacher and Finlayson , 1988 : ch. 2 ) . |
| 7 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 8 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 9 | Each American household generates , on average , more than a ton of rubbish a year . |
| 10 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |