Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than it do " in BNC.
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| 1 | If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did . |
| 2 | The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did . |
| 3 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 4 | Er , and I think perhaps that castle could be persuaded to show up just a little more than it does . |
| 5 | Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA . |
| 6 | Not so , because the same axiom , every decoding is another encoding , applies to literary criticism even more stringently than it does to ordinary spoken discourse . |
| 7 | Clearly , though , the description of being brown and round fits a table much more easily than it does wine . |
| 8 | We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance . |
| 9 | We 'd all like it to happen a lot more often than it does . |
| 10 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |
| 11 | In the first place , as has been shown above , de la Broquière 's comparison of the Mufti with the Pope suggests a personage whose main characteristic was his spiritual rather than his temporal authority , a description which fits Fahreddin Acemi more closely than it does Molla Yegan . |
| 12 | Liquidity returned to the British market far more recently than it did to the American one . |
| 13 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 14 | In Cantal the stocking density is rising , but more slowly presently than it did between 1955 and 1970 ; in Powys it is increasing more and more rapidly . |