Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you believe that women feel more empowered or less empowered now than they did last year ? |
| 2 | Problems are individualized or even suppressed rather than openly explored with all the possible difficulties that this entails . |
| 3 | He had never raced on an oval nor ever driven more than 200 miles in a race . |
| 4 | In the 1980s , Stevens found fame and the album was re-released and eventually sold more than 100,000 copies . |
| 5 | Slooten 's work showed that female Hector 's dolphins begin breeding between 7 and 9 years of age , and rarely live longer than 18 years . |
| 6 | But even these are interrupted by the mountain chains of Burma and Malaya and only cover less than 150 of longitude . |
| 7 | KMT mavericks ( the so-called " non-mainstream " faction ) contested seats without official party endorsement and generally performed better than their " mainstream " counterparts , attacking alleged corruption within the " mainstream " ranks . |
| 8 | A ROUND-the-clock charity climbing relay to climb all 81 routes in Classic Rock has ended in success and already raised more than £4,000 in aid of motor neurone disease , a crippling affliction of the nervous system . |
| 9 | They are more likely to know offenders personally , or to know their families , and thus to warn rather than ‘ book ’ offenders . |
| 10 | It would be like the attempt to look directly at the sun that dazzles and finally blinds rather than enlightens . |
| 11 | The area between the Tay and Forth experienced less than 10 per cent of normal rainfall . |
| 12 | The position was grimmest at Exminster , the largest institution , which had housed more than 1,500 patients in its heyday , and still had more than 1,000 residents in 1972 . |
| 13 | And more crossed even than I knew . |
| 14 | Conifers can thrive on upland areas with lower land value , and also grow faster than native , broad-leaved woodlands which are less efficient " carbon fixers " than pine , fir and spruce . |
| 15 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
| 16 | He lost both legs in the war , and now has more than one hundred window boxes within easy reach at his home near Banbury : |
| 17 | He lost both legs in the war , and now has more than one hundred window boxes within easy reach at his home near Banbury : |
| 18 | Unity Trust reduced its loan book last year , but added 11 per cent more accounts and now has more than 15,000 customers , a quarter from outside the trade union sector . |
| 19 | It was not unknown for one man to chair a dozen committees and even to attend more than thirty committee meetings in one week , though the average load was , of course , much less than these extremes . |
| 20 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
| 21 | So one seems able to conclude that some particular aspects of the overall optimal strategy are easier to understand than others and easier to understand earlier than others . |
| 22 | Old Fishfinger is a regular visitor to the PFK offices ( every time we forget to lock the door ) and occasionally stays less than eight hours . |
| 23 | This failed and actually caught more than a single 18 mm bottom bait . |
| 24 | Many rabbits spend all their lives in the same place and never run more than a hundred yards at a stretch . |
| 25 | She had herself driven over and never spent more than the day . |
| 26 | Thus , if the corporations in their study were divided into three groups depending on the size of their annual sales , then they calculated that those with sales over $1 billion constituted 42 per cent of all corporations but committed nearly three-quarters of not only all violations but all serious violations , whereas those small firms with sales with less than half a billion dollars constituted nearly one-third of firms analysed but only committed less than 10 per cent of all violations . |
| 27 | In the laboratory , males had a significantly slower rate of growth , but still matured earlier than females . |
| 28 | Most notable among the vanquished is Bath , supposedly a team of all the talents , but clearly relying more than one had supposed upon the inventive wit of Stuart Barnes . |
| 29 | Barristers do better than solicitors , but both do better than lawyers in private practice . |
| 30 | He escaped from Crumlin Road prison in Belfast in 1981 , but subsequently spent more than seven years in prison in the Republic for the breakout . |