Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since men are usually a bit taller than their female partners , it 's easier if the man can stand so that he 's a little lower than his partner . |
| 2 | Tom Merry , Bob Cherry , Billy Bunter and all their peers bid fair to join the immortals , only a little lower than Falstaff , Gulliver and Long John Silver . |
| 3 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 4 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 5 | The two decades on either side of 1500 were comparatively stable , with wages being only a little lower than in the middle of the fifteenth century , but by the second decade of the sixteenth they began to decline in face of increasing prices . |
| 6 | ( To a first approximation , one is likely to encounter the first type if f is a little higher than f and the second type if f is a little lower than f . ) |
| 7 | Indeed in some ways the proof is rather simpler than Theorem 1 , since it does not need such a complex structure of nested recursions . |
| 8 | The question of ‘ public safety ’ is rather simpler than that of amenity , though there is ample scope for disagreement ; the relevant issue is whether an advertisement is likely to cause danger to road users , and also to ‘ persons who may use any railway , waterway ( including coastal waters ) , dock , harbour or airfield ’ . |
| 9 | For relationships between Imperial units ( Example 98 ) success rates were low , 30 per cent or less , rather lower than for metric units . |
| 10 | Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds ? |
| 11 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 12 | An assessment of commissions in international bond markets in the early 1980s shown in Davis ( 1988 ) suggests that in general , commissions in the eurobond market ( 2% ) were higher than in the US domestic market ( 1% ) , but rather lower than in the various European domestic markets ( 2.5% ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The figures we have access to put it rather lower than that . |
| 14 | The score for American women is also strikingly lower than the 8% reached by their British sisters . |
| 15 | Floor tiles are less widely used than wall tiles , but are a popular choice for heavy traffic areas such as porches and hallways , and also for conservatories . |
| 16 | Although it is less widely used than it once was , it is found in some bronchodilators and cough mixtures . |
| 17 | They have probably been more widely used than any other book in the private devotions of Anglicans . |
| 18 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 19 | A third type of spectrometer , fundamentally simpler than the other two , uses a tunable monochromatic source ; instruments using IR-emitting diodes have been produced , but are not yet able to replace interferometers . |
| 20 | I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp . |
| 21 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
| 22 | But he dared not move , not this time , not yet , and he held on tight , lying there with his body ten times more thrillingly alive than he had ever known it . |
| 23 | It soundslike a fast , powerful car , and many would rather that than silence . |
| 24 | ‘ Mind you , I 'd rather that than one production of Mozart 's Don Giovanni which I 'd really prefer to forget ! |
| 25 | Nobody wants to die but a brush with death makes you feel more intensely alive than ever . |
| 26 | Clay particles are most cohesive than other soils and deter the pressurising of trapped water , while fine sands are the easiest to liquefy . |
| 27 | David Lawrence is a little quicker than Tony , his present with some problems with his last over , edging away through the slips . |
| 28 | And the consequences of a latter approach could lead to accumulative change in the appearance and nature and character of the countryside so that you get something rather different than most people 's perception of a countryside being there for its own sake . |
| 29 | One aspect is that particular laws are made because these are thought to be more commercially acceptable than others . |
| 30 | The parallels between the work environment and a natural ecosystem will lead to similar responses , and intelligence is vastly quicker than natural selection . |