Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] than [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that Sir John Reresby appeared twice after his first entry , presumably as the owner of empty houses , and that women who were heads of households were often described as widows rather than given their Christian names . |
| 2 | Problems can also arise with companies with , for example , assets in transit in Italy , which are then seized by local creditors rather than retained for the benefit of the creditors as a whole . |
| 3 | The anglers were not expected to match that catch rate , as the most effective early season methods were not permitted by the rules , but the winners more than doubled it . |
| 4 | There has been a sharp escalation in the number of chartered accountants resorting to individual voluntary arrangements to try and resolve their financial crises and avoid bankruptcy the number of IVAs more than doubled last year . |
| 5 | The number of private homes more than tripled in that period , so that by 1986 over 52 per cent of all residential homes were in private hands . |
| 6 | Underwriting losses more than halved to £259 million and investment income rose by 20 per cent to £210 million . |
| 7 | THE LAW COMMISSION 's report on computer hacking is to be published on Tuesday , two months earlier than planned and in time to allow ministers to put proposals for legislation into the Queen 's Speech , should they so wish , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 8 | BBC Director-General Sir Michael Checkland is to quit at Christmas , two months earlier than planned . |
| 9 | Three weeks later , it was announced that Sir Michael would be leaving at the end of the year , two months earlier than planned . |
| 10 | Cook it for a few minutes longer than stated and eat it |
| 11 | In the case of Demerara , removal of the slaveholders ' symbol of authority , the whip , by government , without adequate attention to the moral education of the slaves , it was implied , vindicated the evolutionary approach of the reformers rather than challenged it . |
| 12 | This ‘ supervisory jurisdiction ’ ( which is ‘ inherent ’ , that is to say , it is a jurisdiction which was assumed by the judges rather than conferred on the court by statute ) is to be contrasted with ‘ appellate jurisdiction ’ ( which is possessed by a number of courts and other bodies such as appeal tribunals ) . |
| 13 | Mikhail Shchadov , the Minister for Coal , told the Trud newspaper yesterday that so far this year , deliveries were 18.5 million tonnes less than planned , while 35 million tonnes of mined coal was lying at pitheads for want of freight rolling-stock . |
| 14 | However , Egypt 's grain imports more than doubled between 1970 and 1986 , from under 4 million to almost 9 million tonnes ( about 180 kg per head ) , foreign debt increased twenty-five fold , to over $22 billion , and when the IMF forced the government to increase the price of bread , there were riots in the streets . |
| 15 | But top managers say the advantages more than offset any frustration . |
| 16 | During Dale 's tenure ( 1703–1752 ) the rents more than doubled but , of course , the Company was bound to pay only the due £10 irrespective of the actual yield , low or high , of the properties . |
| 17 | Between 1980 and 1985 interest payments by third world countries more than doubled from 9 to 20 per cent. , at the same time as average prices for their commodities fell by an average of more than 25 per cent . |
| 18 | The annual value of mergers more than trebled from a fairly stable trend in 1966 and 1967 . |
| 19 | Five patients ' aminotransferase activities more than doubled during treatment . |
| 20 | Between 1985 and 1989 the dollar value of exports more than doubled ; planners excitedly began to talk about Korea becoming a creditor nation . |
| 21 | It will be seen that the dollar value of exports more than doubled between 1977 and 1981 , but remained fairly stable thereafter , at least until 1986 . |
| 22 | The cost of the welfare system has skyrocketed : spending on all federal programmes more than tripled between 1965 and 1987 , from $141 billion to $520 billion ( in 1988 dollars ) . |
| 23 | ’ Scottish Homes has had its budget for rent and ownership building programmes more than doubled for 1993/4 . |
| 24 | It was crude , a trifle unfinished and unformed — in any other Dream , she would have researched the externals rather than built on a whim — but it was what she wanted . |
| 25 | It 's taken 14 weeks less than planned . |
| 26 | Profits from the US division fell more modestly to £1.9 million , with Florida timeshare making more , while central costs more than halved to £4.3 million . |
| 27 | Between 1966 and 1981 the number of conversions more than doubled in Greater London and , according to the Nationwide Building Society , conversions accounted for between 30 and 60 percent of all mortgages granted in central and inner London in 1984/85 . |
| 28 | In fact , however , Giraud arrived on the scene two days later than planned and , when he did arrive , proved less influential than anticipated . |
| 29 | Why had Blake arrived seventy years later than planned , and how was he going to return home ? |
| 30 | The story broke all right , but two weeks earlier than planned , thanks to the spoiling tactics of The Sun . |