Example sentences of "than [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , evidence ( Humphrey , 1951 ) suggesting that left handers were more variable than right handers in their hand preference for different tasks led Humphrey and Zangwill ( 1952 ) to analyse the incidence of language disorders in a small group of left handers having damage confined to one or other side of the brain . |
| 2 | Curiously , though , it remains more common to protect working women than working men against threats to reproductive health . |
| 3 | Hewitt ( 1983 ) is then led to conclude that most disasters are characteristic rather than accidental features of places and societies where they occur ; risk arises from ordinary life rather than rareness , and natural extremes are more to be expected than many of the social developments that pervade everyday life . |
| 4 | However , purchasers should not be concerned about part-time employees ( less than eight hours per week ) as they can not claim unfair dismissal rights . |
| 5 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 6 | The fact that the pilot had clearly demonstrated his incompetence at instrument flying by failing to pass the instrument rating test no less than eight times before finally obtaining a pass must have meant that he was incapable of meeting the required standard on a regular basis and in the circumstances ought not to have been licensed to fly a public transport aircraft . |
| 7 | In the European Community of 12 nation states , for instance , no less than eight procedures for calculating potential evapo-transpiration have been in use ! |
| 8 | ‘ I picked up a bug in Germany at the weekend ’ explained McManus , who contested a European League game in Augsburg , where more than eight inches of snow fell in 48 hours . |
| 9 | Thereafter , there were allegations of non-payment of rent , wants of repair , and so forth , and ultimately there were no fewer than eight actions on foot : three by the plaintiff against the assignee ; one by the assignee against the plaintiff ; two actions by the assignee against its underlessees — one against each — and two actions , one by each of its underlessees , against the assignee . |
| 10 | Whatever they could stick their noses into they would , like telling you off if you had more than eight photos on your pin board . |
| 11 | Gerry Adams is trailing the Social , Democratic and Labour Party candidate by more than eight points in West Belfast , according to an Irish News poll . |
| 12 | Between 1972 and 1974 , for example , no more than eight convictions per month were recorded . |
| 13 | A general degree which would require three years of full-time study should normally require no less than five years and no more than eight years of part-time study . |
| 14 | I have had more injuries in three months with Middlesbrough than eight years at Hull City . |
| 15 | If this definition is applied when reviewing surveillance studies the result is that cancers found earlier than eight years from onset or found in left sided colitis or a cancer found at colonoscopy performed for any reason other than surveillance ( such as rectal bleeding ) , can not be regarded as a success . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | of this group waited less than eight weeks for trial , and 84 per cent . |
| 18 | Yes I have pleasure in confirming that and I also have pleasure in confirming that another good sign for young people , apart from the creation of modern apprenticeships , is also the way that the numbers waiting more than eight weeks for a Y T place has now declined from over three thousand to just over three hundred . |
| 19 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 20 | This must be paid not later than eight weeks before your departure date . |
| 21 | Exactly the same principles carry over to social investment decisions provided we are careful to use social rather than private measures of costs , benefits , and the interest or discount rate . |
| 22 | Faced with the reality that newspapers ( and television stations ) were no more than private organs for private gain , commentators could only hope that private ownership would be tempered by a social conscience . |
| 23 | Businesses and government agencies are more vulnerable than private individuals to liability because they can afford it . |
| 24 | In saying ‘ it 's really how you are ’ Sandra Bishop is identifying other factors as more crucial determinants of housework satisfaction than technical aspects of the work environment . |
| 25 | The danger , of course , was that the new schools would be little more than half-hearted extensions of the former senior elementary schools — by 1938 , 63.3 per cent of pupils beyond the age of eleven were in separate senior elementary schools and all that was at first formally required was that such schools should change their labels . |
| 26 | Equally , there exists a self-interest among the regulating profession to keep the reputations of their businesses untarnished by actively seeking out abuse rather than punishing offenders after the event . |
| 27 | The $1.5-million scheme has brought solar-generated power to more than 120 sites in a 10,000-sq-km area of Uva province in the south east of the island . |
| 28 | At Paris , which drew 1.1 million visitors , Renault gave away no fewer than 120 tonnes of brochures . |
| 29 | An engine from one of the vans was found more than 120 feet from the crash site . |
| 30 | But in due time the contribution to population redistribution was significant enough , particularly dispersal from London , with a total of 55,000 dwellings built in no less than 32 towns including Basingstoke . |