Example sentences of "than say " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such listeners would soon be annoyed were announcements to be made too frequently , at intervals of less than say 20–30 minutes , or if programmes were rudely interrupted . |
| 2 | Apart altogether from the loss of water which must accrue by the rise of locks , the time saved in passing through the Grand Union Canal must under ordinary circumstances be reduced by not less than say 3 hours . |
| 3 | Gilmore replied , ‘ I can not do much more than say that what was said was absolute nonsense . ’ |
| 4 | But if , as seems increasingly likely , Mr Clinton will soon tell Congress and the public that American fighting men will have to be sent to Bosnia , he will have to do better than say that he has thought things over carefully . |
| 5 | I think we I 'm assuming that as long as we do n't get more than say three hours of one type of recording from each place , we can get as much , apart from that constraint |
| 6 | Yeah would you would you say that it 's erm it 's A , more of a problem in places such as Flats , anyway than than say ? |
| 7 | They worked hard for any money they got er but basically this was the idea that they could earn more money than say a joiner or a plumber or whatever , and therefore they had a wee bit of pride in themselves . |
| 8 | Er because they were bigger than say Murrays . |
| 9 | General statements that investment appraisals should include data on , for example , product enhancement , diversification , risk reduction and increased internal benefits do little more than say that something new is needed . |
| 10 | " He did more than say it , I can tell you . |
| 11 | I can do no more here than say that I believe that they illuminate some of the processes whereby females come to wish to disassociate themselves from mathematics and other scientific and/or technical activities . |
| 12 | The transport is also better , with the airport considerably closer than say it would have been in Manchester . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm very disappointed not to be doing the film , ’ Crawford added , ‘ but I would rather that people remember enjoying my performance in the play than say that I did n't quite pull it off in the film . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe more so than say Sandwick and I find like Rendal folk you could tell some of them even yet . |
| 15 | The fact that I was not alive when the munich thing happened — and that it happened so long ago — gives me far less problems with it than say heysel songs , hillsboro songs , and even racist ( black ) songs . |
| 16 | If that guarantees he will stay at Leeds for the rest of his career , is nt that BETTER than say signing him now from somewhere else ? ? |
| 17 | Oh yes , erm I think it was generally , er , they had to match the colouring of the rooms that they 'd got , the furniture they 'd got really because as far as the room was concerned er when , when the , new houses came onto the erm , ready for occupation , er they were all cream coloured inside and anyway and pale cream so they , they 'd got er any choice they wanted there it , really it was just to match their curtains , match their carpets , all their furnishings and erm , of course I suppose they , the rose coloured ones er went better than say the lemon coloured one and that because er people just er liked the idea of moving into a place that 's got a nice cosy glow in it , place sort of thing , but we never sell any at all , there 's , none of that type of fitting in , sold now . |
| 18 | So although memory , for example , ha is three times as more likely to appear on the paper than say , what is psychology or groups or perception , it 's nonetheless possible that perception , groups or what is psychology could appear . |
| 19 | You can say that three year olds are more like other three year olds than , say , thirty year olds would be like other thirty year olds , and the younger the child the more true that is , so that would be much more true at age a year , assuming that there are n't any physical defects or mental defects , than say at three . |
| 20 | You can say that three year olds are more like other three year olds than , say , thirty year olds would be like other thirty year olds , and the younger the child the more true that is , so that would be much more true at age a year , assuming that there are n't any physical defects or mental defects , than say at three . |
| 21 | Well , we want to obviously make er people aware er both of their chest , I mean we 're coming in to the autumn , the winter period when er people who have er a residual chest problem will suffer far more , than say in the warmer , dryer and summer months . |
| 22 | One theory to explain this is that the pigmentation of the skin may affect the sensitivity of the nerve-endings , so that chestnuts may be more sensitive to outside stimuli than say bays , therefore making them more likely to over-react . |
| 23 | So why not say , then , that in development perception ‘ teaches ’ action , that as the information delivered up by the input systems becomes progressively ‘ richer ’ the infant becomes better able to direct his own movements , rather than saying that cognisance develops out of action ? |
| 24 | It 's time to get out of bed ’ , rather than saying , ‘ good morning , it 's time to get up . ’ |
| 25 | And I could n't reassure her enough , more than saying ‘ No , I have never had an affair with your husband ’ . |
| 26 | Provided they are not mentally impaired , and we are able to exercise tact , the truth , spoken in love , will always achieve more than saying nothing in order to ‘ keep the peace ’ , and harbouring resentments which fester in the mind and inevitably make us bad-tempered towards them for reasons they do not understand . |
| 27 | But rather than saying , ‘ Sorry mate , you 'll have to wait for it to be repaired , ’ Doug said , ‘ Take that one over there ! ’ pointing to an equivalent amp . |
| 28 | There should be more to alternative comedy than saying FILOFAX . |
| 29 | Peter said yes because it was easier than saying no . |
| 30 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |