Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 400 tonnes of fresh and less than 2,000 tonnes of frozen cod , have been landed in the UK by Russian vessels so far this year . |
| 2 | Any child under 12 and less than five feet tall will have to belt up in the front or rear . |
| 3 | If you do have one though moving around the screens is much quicker and easier than using the keyboard . |
| 4 | The equivalent figures for the trip to Manchester were eighty , forty-five and less than thirty hours . |
| 5 | Around the titles is built a mystique that implies that this quite ordinary product is somehow different and better than anything else on the market . |
| 6 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 7 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 8 | Pineapple and gin have a truly spectacular affinity , combining to make something bigger and better than either . |
| 9 | Elinor 's difficulties were , at least from her description of the classes , bigger and better than those of her fellow therapees . |
| 10 | Three times bigger and better than Napes Needle ’ . |
| 11 | Bigger and better than the old one . |
| 12 | The fight is on now bigger and better than ever . ’ |
| 13 | Our community festival was overjoyed and appreciated by the vast majority of residents of the Lower Ormeau and we hope will be back next year bigger and better than ever . |
| 14 | Their origins were separate and later than those of their people . |
| 15 | Taking last Friday 's price of 160p , Lincat is on an undemanding p/e of 9.5 and less than eight the following year . |
| 16 | It is both clearer and faster than the question and answer technique which many systems employ , and should be determined by the operation number entered . |
| 17 | Widespread protests across the country , and especially in the capital , Santa Domingo , had left at least 14 people dead , with dozens reported wounded and more than 1,000 protestors arrested . |
| 18 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven . |
| 19 | This process is much simpler and quicker than cleaning a convection oven . |
| 20 | From February , BROWNIE magazine will be bigger , brighter and better than ever ! |
| 21 | It enables Excel , Visual Basic and more than 150 other Windows- and MS-DOS-based tools written for SQL Server to connect to Sybase on Unix and VMS machines using native PC-LAN protocols . |
| 22 | Qaddafi is convinced that nature is better than art ; that society based on natural givens is not only more comfortable and just than one based on acts of will and rational choice , but more likely to survive : ‘ A flourishing garden or field is one in which plants grow , flower , are pollinated and root themselves naturally . |
| 23 | Braver and deeper than the evangelical adventure the minister promised to the Christian . |
| 24 | The roar beats toward Keith , unleashed fifteen-year-old energy , suddenly let out , wild , the crowd joyous to find themselves together braver and better than the individuals had imagined themselves to be . |
| 25 | Apart from the community stocking budget being spent on just a couple of fish , the upkeep of many of my big fish is actually cheaper and easier than the community systems . |
| 26 | Due diligence for asset sales is generally cheaper and quicker than for share sales as the investigation covers the specific assets that have been selected rather than investigating hidden liabilities . |
| 27 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 28 | After visits during these extra two hours were excluded , claims increased by 38.7% from 1989 to 1992 and more than doubled in the past 10 years . |
| 29 | When set , it is claimed to be more crack-resistant and harder than normal concrete . |
| 30 | Hundreds of people have been killed and injured and more than 170,000 displaced since fighting intensified two weeks ago . |