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Example sentences of "in [det] [noun] than [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1	Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration .
2	Rangers have five wins and two draws from their games since the first round of the European Cup in September and respond to the fact that opposing teams are keener to attack them in that competition than they are in the Premier Division .
3	Yet he was unwilling to take leave , treating his engagement as settled , without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large , affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat , jewelled hand and , at once pressing and gliding , repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear ( 2 ) .
4	I seem to be more nervous in that way than I once was .
5	This supposition conflicts with the conclusions of students of the geomorphology of the lands , who usually regard sea level as being much higher in that period than it is now .
6	I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else .
7	His grasp of foreign languages was causing Paul to consider asking him to translate some of his work , and knowing Nathan to be more help in that matter than she , Dinah , would ever be , she left the pair of them to their task , and herself enjoyed the jaunts in the carriage sent by the devoted amateurs of the locality .
8	‘ I probably committed more fouls in that game than I have throughout my entire career — I was that determined to do well . ’
9	Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building .
10	I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined .
11	I no more say who I am in this case than I say I 'm off to my wife 's right in the lost-in-cloud case .
12	The right hon. Gentleman also knows that we have provided more additional resources in this Parliament than he was even prepared to promise in his last election manifesto .
13	Collective amnesia is far more prevalent in this culture than we would pretend .
14	it is true that it is currently harder for me to get any kind of sympathetic press coverage in this country than it is anywhere else in Europe . ’
15	The Minister will probably claim that the decline in the number of smokers is greater in this country than it is in Italy and in France .
16	It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own .
17	So history 's a very much broader and more popular subject in this country than I think it is in almost any other country in the world .
18	Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one .
19	The Commission hopes that the threat of new restrictions on cars , this time on the Europe-wide level , will spur the Japanese to do more in this area than they have to date .
20	There 's more humans in this place than I 've ever seen before .
21	The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter .
22	There are more threads in this web than you even know yet ; more than you could understand ; more than you would ever forgive .
23	‘ I reckon I 've got more in this pocket than he gets in a month . ’
24	The problem is worse in some areas than it is in others but , as Karan and Iijima ( 1985 ) point out , soil erosion is particularly acute where steep slopes are cultivated without terracing .
25	If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying .
26	The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment .
27	There were plenty of others with more experience in these matters than I who were deceived .
28	Most bereaved people soon begin to discover that grief does not settle in their life like a gravestone , permanent and immovable : it lives , moves and changes , like all great emotions , and they finally emerge from it not crippled , but stronger in many ways than they were before , in spite of their loss .
29	I would say that it is better in many respects than it was ’ .
30	In the branch of the Banco dell'Annunziazione a girl , whose face was a mask of disappointment nobly borne and from whose carmined lips dangled a cigarette miraculously balancing a tube of ash , clattered calculations as she stood before an upright typewriter and , in less time than she had expected , Molly was in possession of a mound of hundred thousand lire notes .