Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [is] [adv] than " in BNC.

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1 — far lower than in Germany , where it is 26 per cent. , the United States where it is 33 per cent. , and Japan where it is more than 60 per cent .
2 Twenty , she 's more than she 's more than twenty years younger than me .
3 If the bit-wise comparisons match ( and the length is checked more accurately if it is more than 10 ) then the word shape is checked .
4 Do n't overload socket outlets , and have your wiring checked by an electrician if it is more than 20 years old .
5 If it is more than 30 -C , move the bulb further from the soil .
6 In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week .
7 If it is less than £1.05 a week , it will be paid as a lump sum once a year .
8 The statement of claim has not been finalised yet but Lord Spens says that he will be disappointed if it is less than £2m .
9 If it is less than 4 m ( 13 ft ) you wo n't have enough room to be able to manoeuvre yourself comfortably .
10 If it is less than 12 hours then do n't worry , just take the delayed pill straightaway and further pills as usual .
11 So if it 's less than three centimetres from P it 's got to be up this end .
12 They can be sacked If it 's less than two years they 've been working , they can be sacked at a weeks notice or whatever it is .
13 But if it 's less than twice as great , I 'll want it for myself .
14 If it 's less than a hundred it 's smaller if it 's more than a hundred it 's greater .
15 Erm , it 's once a week , but I think they 're coming in the they 're here twice this week er , and I think , it 's as and when they can , so if it 's more than once a week then they will be here .
16 We pay thirty five percent if it 's more than a hundred miles away from home .
17 There would be absolutely no u need to use an apostrophe because there 's no possession to follow it , it 's always got to be in that pattern of owner and possession , and if it 's one , then it 's before the s and if it 's more than one , it 's after the s .
18 He said I 'll come up he said if it 's more than thirty pound Ange , he said you can give me some money next week .
19 Right if it 's more than two then it 's heaviest , I have ever tasted clay ?
20 If it 's less than a hundred it 's smaller if it 's more than a hundred it 's greater .
21 But at least there 's no stamp duty because it 's less than thirty three thousand .
22 Dr Mahmoud al-Sharief , Jordan 's Information Minister , said the best antidote to radical Islam was to give fundamentalists some power rather than jail sentences , to make them ‘ deal with the world as it is rather than as they imagine it to be ’ .
23 The unit should fit under any hood without cut outs and as it 's less than 12″ wide it will fit on the side or back of virtually any tank .
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