Example sentences of "were [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notwithstanding the reservations of Glynn and Oxborrow it is clear that population growth rates were less than one third of their nineteenth century peaks and the fact is that there was a substantial loss of population from the old industrial areas to the new ones . |
| 2 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 3 | Trent believed that they were less than two miles from the river mouth . |
| 4 | In front of most of the stars that were less than 1000 light years away Welsh found no neutral sodium gas . |
| 5 | We were less than a hundred miles away from Adrar , and it was New Year 's Eve . |
| 6 | By the time I realized this we were less than twenty yards apart . |
| 7 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 8 | Mr Rajat Goswamy , who is a consultant gynaecologist at St Thomas 's Hospital , comments , ‘ I have used it successfully on 20 women , all of who were less than eight weeks into pregnancy . |
| 9 | But he drew the line at including gurls , because gurls were less than zero — J M Barrie had the right idea there . |
| 10 | The two were less than two centuries apart , but it brings back to mind Flecker 's verses To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence , which ends : |
| 11 | Credit sale was exempt if there were less than five instalments , and was generally subject to less regulation . |
| 12 | The takings from calls were less than £25,000 . |
| 13 | There were less than three minutes to go and referee Brian Hill decided to call a halt — with a little help from Wilkins . |
| 14 | In 1901 there were less than two million people over 65 in Britain , but by 1981 this had risen to about eight million ( Henwood and Wicks 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Secondly , HRP is only available for complete tax years in which earnings were less than 52 times the lower earnings limit . |
| 16 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 17 | When expected cell frequencies were less than 5 Fisher 's exact test was used . |
| 18 | At the same time a tax allowance in respect of children of married taxpayers whose annual incomes were less than £500 was introduced . |
| 19 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 20 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 21 | About two-thirds of the success rates for each question were less than ten percentage points different . |
| 22 | By 1939 , one-third of all British houses were less than 20 years old . |
| 23 | Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 . |
| 24 | Thus the estimates used in the GRE for 1983/4 were less than 50 per cent of the likely true figures . |
| 25 | When there were less than 30 days to delivery , no further daily volatility estimates were computed . |
| 26 | Thus , whilst Feare 's ( 1970a ) youngsters from Robin Hood 's Bay were less than 10mm at one year old , a little over 15mm at two and entered adult hood at around 20mm , the equivalent figures for Moore 's ( 1938a ) Plymouth enclaves are 10–15mm , 21–26mm and 29.5mm respectively . |
| 27 | The two boats were less than one hundred yards away from each other now . |
| 28 | The German trenches were less than two hundred yards ahead , with our front trench only a hundred yards from theirs . |
| 29 | But they were less than competent in certain areas . |
| 30 | There were less than twelve hours before the big day , my first day at Debenham High School . |