Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plant is altogether much smaller than A. calamus var. angustifolius , producing a small , compact rosette . |
| 2 | The average correlation observed , 0.32 , between a subject 's estimates and the true figures is only slightly lower than the correlation of 0.4 reported in Brehmer ( 1987 ) and any difference could be accounted for by the different range of actual accident statistics used in the two studies . |
| 3 | When smokers give up , their risk of getting lung cancer starts decreasing so that after 10 to 15 years an ex-smoker 's risk is only slightly greater than that of someone who has never smoked [ 6 ] . |
| 4 | Of the various particles available , polystyrene beads are particularly useful in water , as their density is only slightly greater than that of water . |
| 5 | Today 's report says the suicide rate among students is only slightly higher than young people the same age in the world outside . |
| 6 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 7 | Those with Crohn 's disease who still retain their pouch , however , have a bowel frequency that is only just greater than in those patients having the operation for ulcerative colitis . |
| 8 | Rigel is only marginally fainter than Capella or Vega , and is much more luminous than either . |
| 9 | Coventry 's goal difference is so much better than Luton 's that the margin is more like four points . |
| 10 | ‘ My music is so much better than anyone else 's . |
| 11 | He may even live the kind of life he does not really like simply because he feels that because everyone else is so much wiser than he is they must know best about what is right for him . |
| 12 | My world of science is so much richer than theirs , because I not only know the systematic names , but I am also fluent in the trivial ones , the scientific nicknames which allow us to chat about science over coffee . |
| 13 | It 's , it 's , it 's marched with the capital and that 's why erm the capital value of our investments is so much higher than the cost . |
| 14 | Well , her position in society is so much higher than yours that you ca n't hope to marry her . |
| 15 | Spying on me is so much pleasanter than directing the bloody traffic . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 17 | It is tragic that this tradition has ended , because the joy of making music is so much greater than the joy of just listening . |
| 18 | This is the reason why our opportunity is so much greater than his and why our potential for joy is limitless . |
| 19 | The fact that the spadefoot toad has achieved this is all the more remarkable because it is an amphibian , and its need for water is so much greater than that of other land-based animals . |
| 20 | To take the initiative yourself , however is often too difficult : your mind may have convinced you that your confusion is so much greater than other people 's , your backlog of work so much longer , your reputation so much lower , that to open yourself to the social confirmation of these frightful facts would be a pointless and self-sacrificing thing to do . |
| 21 | The problem of the ‘ dark ’ figure of crime , the ‘ real ’ crime level , which is so much greater than the official statistics for recorded crime , seems to indicate a far more serious problem than previously acknowledged . |
| 22 | And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death . |
| 23 | As information transmitted in binary form is so much faster than analogue signals , the full benefits of computer-based communication systems can only be gained when nations convert their existing telecommunications networks to digital operation . |
| 24 | This thoughtless response is so much easier than confronting the real reasons , as it has an inevitability about it . |
| 25 | Visiting a school is so much easier than sitting exposed in the waiting room of a specialist institution . |
| 26 | The amount that is actually being re-used is perhaps rather larger than the public realises : PWMI estimates that 7.6 per cent of the EC 's total plastic waste of 10.7m tonnes is recycled , while the calorific value of a further 12.8 per cent is recovered by using waste as fuel . |
| 27 | The discussion in the original work is obviously much fuller than this , but here the interest is in the approach . |
| 28 | When we are dealing with hard , brittle crystals , however , the practical strength is generally even lower than that of bulk glass and in their crude state most of the non-metallic crystals deserve the contempt with which they are generally regarded by engineers . |
| 29 | That the ‘ degenerescence ’ of the population of this district is not even greater than it is , is due to the constant recruiting from the adjacent country , and intermarriages with more healthy races . |
| 30 | The person who wins the race in Paris is not just stronger than his rivals . |