Example sentences of "was [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total of those favouring denominational schooling in the initial survey was less than one-third . |
| 2 | In this dilemma , Eliot was less than helpful to his apologists . |
| 3 | Page 31 Decline encouraging : The $142m deline in Britain 's reserves of gold and foreign exchange to $42.88bn was less than many had been fearing . |
| 4 | The issue will complete the transformation of the Postbank , which is the world 's largest postal savings bank , from a sleepy adjunct to the Dutch post office , which it was less than five years ago , to an international banking force . |
| 5 | The Count and Countess both looked and sounded good , though Stephen Page 's portrayal of a habitual seducer was less than convincing . |
| 6 | But this was less than the £2.3bn that mainland European corporations spent on UK acquisitions . |
| 7 | But despite its video pictorial qualities , and its much vaunted ‘ personal ’ contact with party leaders , television 's advantage over the press in giving information about leaders was less than its advantage on issue-information . |
| 8 | The jubilee , like , indeed , the royal wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh back in 1947 , was less than unbridled in its lavishness . |
| 9 | The Cod War was less than popular . |
| 10 | Herr Nordern joined in , and even Paul was co-opted although his contribution was less than successful as his views on suitable food seemed to consist only of frankfurter sausages , Cola , and , drawn from a mysterious memory of the dinner in the Palast , champagne . |
| 11 | Frau Fegel was less than enthusiastic . |
| 12 | Erika 's assent was less than whole-hearted , for , although she was proud of the care the State was lavishing on the old buildings , and although , in fact , she preferred this part of the city , she felt it a duty to defend the crude and blatant concrete of the post-war Berlin . |
| 13 | At this time the annual kill per US boat was less than 200 , but by 1986 , 94 per cent of all US sets were being ‘ made on dolphins ' ’ and the kill figure had increased to more than 600 . |
| 14 | An estate for life was less than an estate tail , and both were smaller than a fee simple . |
| 15 | The case put forward by the pensions industry was less than persuasive . |
| 16 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 17 | Angus McLaren 's study of the Lancashire textile workers , whose fertility was less than other working-class groups in the nineteenth century , suggests that many of the miscarriages which were reported , and many which were not reported , were probably the result of abortion achieved through the use of Epsom and Glauber salts or similar substances . |
| 18 | Although Bert Cooke , shortly after his conversion , became an active supporter of Paisley 's evangelistic work , he was less than enthusiastic about the public image of the Church : ‘ When I started thinking about full-time service , I did n't want to be a Free Presbyterian . |
| 19 | One of them was less than an inch away from his eye as he lay buckled up on the ground beneath the tree . |
| 20 | Its central belief , in the wisdom of the marketplace , was less than immediately applicable to the running of Kew Gardens or the British Museum . |
| 21 | As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day . |
| 22 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 23 | Todger was less than sympathetic to his complaints . |
| 24 | For the first time , the Christian Democrat vote was less than 30 per cent for both Houses of Parliament — though by the vagaries of the complex system of distributing seats it looked as if the alliance might get a majority in the lower house , the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 25 | Tritsis was less than halfway through his mandate when he was felled by a stroke at the end of last month . |
| 26 | Masked by the formalities of the telegram sent yesterday morning to Mr Major by M Jacques Delors , EC commission president , the mood in the corridors of Brussels was less than euphoric . |
| 27 | But the style and organisation was less than wonderful . |
| 28 | He did not know how much had been paid but believed it was less than £50m . |
| 29 | The swing from the Conservatives here of 5.21 per cent was less than in either nearby Gloucester ( 5.34 ) or Stroud ( 6.22 ) , where sitting members were candidates , and only a little more than Bath , where 4.95 per cent defeated a Cabinet minister . |
| 30 | While , however , female GP referrals averaged more severe social problems per case ( 1.34 ) than male GP referrals ( 1.12 ) , this was less than other female referrals ( 1.44 ) . |