Example sentences of "[adj] [det] than in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 2 | This was about 2,000 more than in the previous 12 months and the highest figure since 1985 . |
| 3 | This was much more than in the same period of 1973–75 , slightly more than in 1980 and similar to the decline in the first nine months of the 1981–82 recession . |
| 4 | A full-price CD retails around A$28 ( about £11.50 or US$21 ) , not significantly dearer than the UK but much more than in the USA . |
| 5 | Much more than in the Review , the concern here is with the quality of service offered to the " client " or consumer " . |
| 6 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 7 | The advantage of buying in a local store in Europe is that although you have to pay local duty , it is likely to be much less than in the UK . |
| 8 | But as Nicholas Bosanquet ( 1975 , 1978 ) points out this is partly because younger people are now dependent , ill and hospitalized much less than in the past . |
| 9 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 10 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 11 | On May 21 Milongo announced a major Cabinet reshuffle , naming only 10 ministers in addition to himself , eight fewer than in the previous transitional administration . |
| 12 | There were , he reported , 4.2 million students in FE , many more than in the universities and ‘ polyversities ’ combined . |
| 13 | In the British Medical Journal a Bristol hospital claimed that 24 car drivers were admitted after accidents in February , 18 less than in the same month in 1982 . |
| 14 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 15 | There 's nothing to be scared of , any more than in an old church . |
| 16 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 17 | With his party winning 20 seats — two fewer than in the previous parliament — Mr Ashdown conceded that the high hopes generated by his widely praised campaign had not been fulfilled . |
| 18 | Since the start of August the UDA/UFF has stepped up its campaign , killing four people within four short weeks and since the start of the year the UVF have killed seven — two fewer than in the same period last year . |
| 19 | The Home Ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ( Hope ) programme was set to be expanded , but overall the proposed expenditure on " choice " was to be an estimated $16,000 million in fiscal 1992 , approximately $3,700 million less than in the current fiscal year . |
| 20 | The 1991 budget , adopted in January 1991 , provided for expenditure of Z2,167,000 million , 100,000 million less than in the previous year . |
| 21 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |