Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] [noun] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , the TUC 's regional education programme is shifting steadily in favour of courses even shorter than the ten-day representatives ' courses , not organised coherently as part of a process of recurrent union education but arranged on a more or less ad hoc basis around single issues . |
| 2 | His claims for communications were , in fact , much more modest than the English lecturers ' claims for English . |
| 3 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 4 | What I 'm trying to say is that er Notts County supporters have got ta watch out for the other English teams ' scores rather than the Italian teams ' scores . |
| 5 | These factors must bulk larger in the explanation of depopulation than the sixteenth-century writers ' scapegoat , the rapacious landlords . |
| 6 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 7 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 8 | Betrayers of the Truth might have been little more than a scientific rogues ' gallery and , as such , an entertaining if disillusioning read . |
| 9 | The article implies that district societies are no more than a local practitioners ' club . |
| 10 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |