Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] than in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bolsheviks at least promised to tackle regional socio-economic backwardness , and their bureaucratic intervention in the localities was at first less oppressive in some ways than in the Tsarist past simply for lack of personnel . |
| 2 | This may reflect the fact that many people today have more leisure and money to spend on such pursuits than in the past . |
| 3 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 4 | It is a sign of the slowly increasing political maturity of the age that serious negotiations were less frequently impeded by such quibbles than in the previous century . |
| 5 | There are fewer rules than in the above classes and racing only takes place in winds above 11 knots . |
| 6 | There will be less people and less distribution issues involved in these efforts than in the ANDF-like solutions , argues Mace , who reckons real on-chip solutions are some four to five years away from commercial realisation . |
| 7 | Development training was specifically mentioned by fewer respondents than in the county libraries . |
| 8 | Thus the surgical group required a significant amount of blood transfusion as well as injection and check endoscopies , although there were fewer episodes than in the sclerotherapy group . |
| 9 | The substantially better climate and weather patterns — particularly in the southern USA — result in much higher annual utilisation and fewer cancellations than in the UK . |
| 10 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 11 | 1991 was the worst year of the current 30-year pandemic of cholera , with more cases than in the past five years combined . |
| 12 | However , in most cases , the private person , even if not acting in the course of a business , is still really entering into a commercial transaction and it seems more likely that there will be more cases than in the first category where it will be reasonable that he accept some liability . |
| 13 | In the following year , ninety one ninety two , the number of applications held steady , but the total fee income declined slightly and in nineteen ninety two ninety three , whilst the number of applications fell slightly , the fee income fell considerably , so that in ninety two ninety three er there were more applications than in the , th the first of those , of those years that I quoted , but the fee income was twenty five percent down . |
| 14 | The Committee noted that the UKAEA has a ‘ magnificent record in scientific and technical achievements ’ but stressed that future research and development in nuclear energy will attract considerably less resources than in the past . |
| 15 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 16 | In the period 1990-92 there were more repossessions than in the whole of the 1980s . |
| 17 | more patients than in the months before they became managed . |
| 18 | The organisation has now registered about 200,000 people and in the last year registered more names than in the previous seven years . |
| 19 | ‘ The more the activities of foreign spies have increased ’ he says , ‘ the more our activities have increased , and over the past five years , we 've uncovered more agents than in the previous fifteen ’ . |
| 20 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |