Example sentences of "it is [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ . |
| 2 | In some cases , as in the UK , afforestation is widespread and like agriculture in the UK ( section 6.2.3 ) , the rationale behind it is economically-rather than ecologically-based . |
| 3 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 4 | In fact it is more than one book . |
| 5 | IT IS more than 20 years since the novelist C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture , The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution , and 20 since F R Leavis delivered his swingeing assault on Snow , which made the whole thing a subject of violent controversy , adding somewhat to the gaiety of that small part of the nation interested in academic ding-dong . |
| 6 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 7 | If the bit-wise comparisons match ( and the length is checked more accurately if it is more than 10 ) then the word shape is checked . |
| 8 | Do n't overload socket outlets , and have your wiring checked by an electrician if it is more than 20 years old . |
| 9 | If it is more than 30 -C , move the bulb further from the soil . |
| 10 | Three of the Länder have a larger electorate than Lower Saxony — in North Rhine-Westphalia it is more than twice as large — and consequently more MdBs and longer party lists . |
| 11 | It is more than two feet high , a very big vase for its time but little more than half the height of the grave-vase fig. 46 . |
| 12 | As an illustration of this negative relationship Lucas notes that for the US his estimate of the variance of aggregate demand is 0.00064 , while for Argentina it is more than 20 times higher at 0.01555 ; the estimate of β 1 for the US is 0.910 , whereas for Argentina it is much lower at 0.011 . |
| 13 | — far lower than in Germany , where it is 26 per cent. , the United States where it is 33 per cent. , and Japan where it is more than 60 per cent . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is more than two years since she had her last lesson — a half-hour check-up from the man who started her off as a 12-year-old . |
| 15 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 16 | In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week . |
| 17 | If it is less than £1.05 a week , it will be paid as a lump sum once a year . |
| 18 | Faris is sure that it is lower than 300 picoseconds , although he does not have the equipment to prove his prediction that it is less than 50 picoseconds ( 10 -12 seconds ) . |
| 19 | From there it is less than one Cessna hour to see from air the Bay of Islands , the Waitangi Treaty House ( where the historic treaty between Maori and British was signed ) , Cape Brett ( with its remarkable rocky island that has a hole in it you can sail ships right through ) , and thousands of acres of primeval forests of kauri trees . |
| 20 | The statement of claim has not been finalised yet but Lord Spens says that he will be disappointed if it is less than £2m . |
| 21 | The standard deviation on the gravity data is less than 30μGal and on the elevation data it is less than 1cm . |
| 22 | It is less than £5 today . |
| 23 | It is less than 50 . |
| 24 | Following the river , it is almost 1,000 miles from Wadi Halfa to Khartoum while as the crow flies it is less than 500 . |
| 25 | Because , whatever the tax rate ( assuming it is less than 100 per cent ) , the way to maximize after-tax profits is to maximize pre-tax profits . |
| 26 | If it is less than 4 m ( 13 ft ) you wo n't have enough room to be able to manoeuvre yourself comfortably . |
| 27 | It is less than £30,000 , compared with the tens or hundreds of millions that are spent on promoting tobacco . |
| 28 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 29 | If it is less than 12 hours then do n't worry , just take the delayed pill straightaway and further pills as usual . |