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Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun sg] than have " in BNC.

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1	Mercedes explains that the biggest problem in developing the five-speed unit is the necessity to reduce mechanical and hydraulic losses to a lower level than had been achieved previously .
2	Most financial intermediaries are thus involved in a process known as maturity transformation whereby deposits generally have a shorter term than have their loans .
3	On this occasion he occupied a chair at right angles to his desk , and he leaned much further back than had been his custom , stretching out his legs ; and , being denied by this posture the opportunity of studying the floor while collecting his thoughts , he addressed the bulk of his remarks first to his feet .
4	Perhaps development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case
5	Perhaps a development of nursery education on a much greater scale , bigger scale than has hitherto been the case
6	The study , carried out by researchers led by Steve Wilcox , of Cardiff University , shows that council housing transfers to other bodies have been taking place in England on a much larger scale than has happened so far in Scotland .
7	Dr Allan said the two men were bearing up well and were in better condition than had been expected after making the longest unsupported polar trip and the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass .
8	The Company however was not willing simply to spend money , but intended to have somewhat closer control than had been the case in the more recent past .
9	Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) .
10	The Fleadh ( pronounced Flah ) , which was launched in London 's Finsbury Park in 1990 , and has already spawned two related events in the United States , got off to a shaky start in Scotland last year , with a smaller attendance than had been hoped for and complaints about the shale surface on which it was held .
11	The expulsion of the Turks from Vojvodina gave an opportunity for the Serbs of that area , many of whom were descendants of the refugees who had fled across the Danube in front of the advancing Ottomans during the previous two or three centuries , to develop their national culture in a freer atmosphere than had existed under Islamic rule .
12	This splitting has occurred on 24.4 per cent of the teeth , which is a higher percentage than has been found in any of the pellet assemblages ( Table 3.10 ) .
13	This corresponded to a higher stress than had ever been observed before in tin and perhaps in any other metal .
14	With government borrowing having soared to £28 billion this year , and underlying concern that public finances are in a worse state than has been acknowledged , Mr Portillo 's priority will be to curb further increases in public expenditure .
15	Corelli 's slow movements are noble pieces and they have a gravity which is served well by a large group of instruments favouring a notably slower tempo than has recently become the fashion .
16	I am impressed tonight to see how much we agree about the position there and on the need for much stronger action than has been taken so far .
17	Providing these will result in stronger management than having authority imposed by workers without a clinical background .
18	It is not surprising , therefore , that cultural influences from Italy have , until comparatively recently , had a greater effect than have those emanating from the Balkans .
19	Secondly , frequent testing and the enormous pressure of parents and pupils to succeed will almost certainly have the effect of focusing attention on assessment targets , at the expense of other activities to an even greater degree than has occurred in the past .
20	Yet this childhood query , already asked and not answered millions of times , is of profound importance , for it is that very question , and its non-answer , or obviously insincere answer that , quite probably , has undermined child respect for adults to a greater degree than has all other causes put together .
21	The analysis at the University of Surrey by Sara Arber and her associates ( financed by the ESRC as part of their Ageing Initiative ) of the 1980 General Household Suney suggests that elderly men also provide such services to a greater degree than has been assumed ( Gilbert et al. , 1989 ) .
22	Only then will it be possible to suggest that much of the invisible ownership landscape is there in the form of landscape features and is of greater antiquity than has been formerly thought .
23	Stress is probably a greater factor than has been allowed for up to now .
24	But the authorities of the cat world do seem to have their eyes firmly fixed on possible dangers , and we can hope for a much greater restraint than has existed in the case of a number of breeds of dog .
25	The shop stocked un-Irish books also , and even the smallest volume was treated and presented with greater care than has ever been known in the bookworm paradises of Charing Cross Road or Hay-on-Wye .
26	Wonderfully bizarre , compared to the local species , they seemed to symbolize a sudden awakening from the drab monotones of medieval Christianity to a much richer world than had previously been imagined .
27	However , I have argued that this need not be so ; the classical perspective , in the basic form laid down by Beccaria , has much greater potential than has been exploited so far .
28	One of the most exciting suggestions to emerge from the research of the Schools Council History project , and in later research into primary history teaching methods , has been the idea that certain , concept-based methods of History teaching can lead to pupils reaching certain levels of historical understanding at a rather earlier stage than had previously been thought possible .