Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of this country 's great strengths is that the burdens imposed by the Government on employing people are much lighter than in France and Germany . |
| 2 | The arithmetic in the Lords is messier than in the Commons . |
| 3 | The grass is greener than in a commercial for lawn-mowers ; something , as at a Test match or at Wimbldeon , hangs in the air or on the hum of the crowd 's voice . |
| 4 | In the female this tube is broader than in the male . |
| 5 | A collection of general medical books in a public library may deal with the same range of topics , but the indexing can be broader than in a specialist context , and the terms used for the same thing may be different . |
| 6 | In aggregate then , the run-down of employment in foreign-owned plants was steadier than in domestic industry , reflecting more the international average of changes in the economy and productivity . |
| 7 | They exchanged photographs before they met , but when I first saw him he looked years older and much fatter than in his photo and now it 's emerged that he 's 48 and divorced . |
| 8 | The place was a lot cleaner than in commune days . |
| 9 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 10 | Shopping could n't be easier than in Northampton 's compact central area . |
| 11 | Setting up the experiment in Utah and keeping it secret turned out to be easier than in Britain . |
| 12 | The war was also a business in which it was apparently no easier than in peace to obtain just treatment for seaman , whatever hardships they might be suffering . |
| 13 | In some areas of the country , where voluntary services are well developed , substitution of voluntary for local provision would be easier than in areas where the voluntary sector is weak . |
| 14 | Although the competition in the UK is for students , the tasks set for the competitors are not any easier than in other countries . |
| 15 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 16 | The fronds or stems are slightly shorter than in N. graminea or N. microdon . |
| 17 | So no piece of information is too trivial for consideration : monster otaku may collect the names of the various actors who wore the rubber suits in an episode of Ultraman ( a trashy humanoid vs monster Japanese TV show , still watched on endless reruns ) and who were conspicuously shorter than in other shows ; ‘ idol ’ otaku may discover what university the father of Seventies teenybop star Hikaru Nishida attended . |
| 18 | One advantage of these fabrics is that the floats are shorter than in conventional Fair Isle knitting . |
| 19 | The summer season is consequently shorter than in southern parts of Britain , and the ‘ timing factor ’ for breeding birds is that much more critical . |
| 20 | In summer the days are longer and warmer and the nights are shorter than in autumn . |
| 21 | The CNAA 's Charter required the degrees it approved to be ‘ comparable ’ with those of universities , and the General Committee — and Council itself — thought that two-year degrees would stretch the interpretation too far : students would be under too much strain , and British degree courses were in any case already shorter than in most other countries . |
| 22 | Longterm survival in patients who undergo transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma tends to be shorter than in patients transplanted for cirrhosis , because of disease recurrence . |
| 23 | On the other hand , squeeze duration in incontinent subjects was significantly shorter than in healthy volunteers ( 22.4 ( 2.9 ) v 49.4 ( 1.4 ) sec , p<0.0001 ) . |
| 24 | If , in addition , they could hire for private patients the very expensive facilities in the way of X-ray machines , operating theatres and the like , to be found within the National Health Service , this too made their lives very much easier and in many cases made their private practice a possibility . |
| 25 | But the architect had agreed with her that it would make the room much lighter and in the end Matthew had assented . |
| 26 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 27 | The majority , 78 per cent of males and 75 per cent of females aged 65 + , thought that people were healthier than in their parents ' time . |
| 28 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 29 | CD players have come down in price , but the discs themselves are still about thirty per cent dearer than in America . |
| 30 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |