Example sentences of "than [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 2 | The advance of this critical period , however , can not easily be linked to the idea of a body clock which tends to run fast and so produce daily rhythms which are timed too early because , when daily rhythms have been investigated in these patients , it appears that daily rhythms are irregular , rather than altered in a particular direction . |
| 3 | You will know how many rows there should be to the inch ( centimetre ) , all you need to do is to work a number of rows less than given in the instructions before finishing the sleeve . |
| 4 | When a norm is internalized , it is part of a person , automatically expressed in behaviour , rather than regarded in a more detached way as a rule external to the self . |
| 5 | oh dear , they 're , they 're better than caught in the act are n't they ? they 're quite |
| 6 | That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation . |
| 7 | A district with a high under 75 years standardised mortality ratio will tend to have people dying earlier than expected in the younger age groups , and applying national average rates of use of service to those groups will underestimate its relative need for health services . |
| 8 | Although the take up in some areas has been poorer than expected in the programme , which is now into its second year , research into changes in working practices and attitudes has been assessed . |
| 9 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 10 | As it turns out , however , both fared better than expected in an election which produced something positive for almost everyone . |
| 11 | The number of cases have more than tripled in a week , registering the highest increase since the 1975-76 epidemic — when a peak of 350 cases per 100,000 were recorded and 1,283 people died . |
| 12 | Le Monde of Sept. 6 said that an estimated 400,000 hectares of rice had been affected , adding that rice prices had more than tripled in a week . |
| 13 | Output : The decline in output was greater than seen in the July survey and worse than had been anticipated , with a balance of 20pc of firms reporting a fall . |
| 14 | Ships are now built in modules rather than built in a whole from the base up in a dry dock , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The modern actuary is far more likely to be a well-rounded individual , meeting people and advising on vital aspects of corporate development , than buried in a statistical department . |
| 16 | More people were put to death in Ireland than died in the French revolutionary Terror of the time . |
| 17 | He commented on the results : Even God came out of the thing with a more credible characterization than offered in the original … |
| 18 | These tenants included a higher proportion in the age-groups 74–79 , 80–84 and 85 and over than occurred in the general population . |
| 19 | Even capacity expansion co-operation has been carried out in such a way as to allow substantial continued internal competition and even greater market share changes than occurred in the United States . |
| 20 | In absolute terms , there were three extra households for every extra member of the population over this period , generating a very much higher level of new housing need than reflected in the overall population figures . |
| 21 | To treat it separately would be to risk giving rise to the misconception that it should be separately timetabled , taught and assessed , rather than integrated in the speaking , listening , reading and writing activities of any English lesson . |
| 22 | In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts . |
| 23 | The oppression of Black communities which justifies policy intervention but barely touches on policy implementation may be mirrored rather than challenged in the nebulous realm of academic research . |
| 24 | Thus the points made in the sentence quoted by Price are more than underlined in the final text . |
| 25 | His vote was more than halved in the party 's northern region , and nearly halved in both Yorkshire and the north-west . |
| 26 | When gas comes from volcanic regions the ratio of 3 He to 4 He is eight to fifteen times greater than found in the atmosphere and crustal rock . ’ |
| 27 | The plot is concluded by a deception which we see leading to a misdeed , although that misdeed is only anticipated in the speech of all three dramatis personae at the end rather than enacted in the text . |
| 28 | An external observer at rest who detects the flash at the moment that it reaches the roof would see it Doppler shifted to a lower frequency than observed in the source frame . |
| 29 | THE Friends tour of the Danish island of Bornholm will now depart one week later than advertised in the winter issue of Welcome . |
| 30 | Meat and Livestock Commission surveys show that stocking rates and outputs of weaned lambs are substantially lower than obtained in the lowlands , 9.1 as compared to 11.4 ewes/ha and 427 as compared to 636 kg weaned lamb/ha yet the most profitable third of the recorded flocks attained an average of 10.4 ewes/ha . |