Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] than from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believing their children will receive a better and more disciplined education , with a greater prospect of university entry than from a state school , many parents who can afford it send their children to such private institutions , known ( confusingly ) as " public schools . " |
| 2 | Meals that last longer than twenty minutes indicate that the child is gaining more from the parent interaction than from the food . |
| 3 | The geysers and mud pools of Rotorua are more striking seen from ground level than from the air , but the great geyser still looks impressive from 1,500 feet . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 5 | Mr G. Dear , who was at school with Richard , told me : ‘ We learnt more in class from his talking above and beyond the subject matter than from others who stuck to the syllabuses … it was an honour to be selected for the annual school play … ‘ |
| 6 | More recently it has been recognised that students will benefit more from the provision of good quality language support than from long periods spent learning English in ESL courses and this has led to a shift in resources towards the mainstream classroom . |