Example sentences of "than it is [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is no chronic medical problem , poor attendance is less of a problem with executives than it is with junior employees . |
| 2 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 3 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 4 | Since a variety of conduct is included within the term gross indecency , the protection afforded to male patients from sexual exploitation is greater than it is for female patients . |
| 5 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 6 | It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC . |
| 7 | Their pre-school life is often more sheltered than it is for white children . |
| 8 | Horses learn new things easily when they are young ; it is actually easier for them to learn new things than it is for older horses . |
| 9 | It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men . |
| 10 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |
| 11 | This preliminary chat should be much higher on the agenda than it is in many salons . ’ |
| 12 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |