Placing phone calls may take a little longer than usual.
More than usual than, say, a person's senses are brought to life when visiting the Netherlands.
It is these that absorb whale "clicks": Rough weather generates more bubbles than usual.
As her mother bugged Sandy much more than before, she argued with her mother a lot more than usual too.
After the rain, the sky seems clearer than usual. The boundless blue sky brings a refreshing mood to people.
When such a thing happened, the courtyard was quieter than before. Although not everyone was in danger, the work was a little harder than usual.
Wade was quieter than usual and did not set up his every morning complaint against the hominy that he so disliked.
In Prague, a magnificent city where we were less cold than usual, we presented the 2008 vintage, which was very popular since it was more open and less tannic than the wines tasted last autumn.
From a series of brain scans on volunteers, the researchers showed that a hunger hormone triggered activity in the brain that made people pay more for junk food than usual.
The streets were very quiet, yet there were quite a few rickshaws around. The pullers seemed smarter than usual, nearly all of them wearing new shoes; and some of the rickshaws had a piece of red paper stuck on the back.
The vintage was later than usual.
He was in a less jocular mood than usual.
When flowering was stimulated by hot water, the lodicules were smaller than usual, soluble sugar and starch content was also lower than usual.
There had been earlier drinking than usual in the wine shop of Monsieur Defarge.
The two men are back from a ten-day visit to Iraq, and are even more voluble than usual.
The lights which had been burned on for some time were dimmer than usual and made everything appear as if in a fog.
I don't know what kind of person I am, but in my opinion, I'm just like a child playing on the seashore, complacent for finding a pebble that is more smooth than usual or a more beautiful shell than usual, but for the vast ocean of truth in front of me, There was no discovery.
The manufacturers appear to have underbid the contracts by a wider margin than usual. Costs escalated beyond all expectations. And few were privy to the problems because the program was financed in the secret part of the Pentagon budget.
He arrived earlier than usual.
Things which are cheaper than usual
The temperature, well below freezing, made our voices crisper than usual.
He Zi walks in the street as usual. Today there are more people than usual. This is always the case on weekends and evenings.
This year's sweet-scented osmanthus blossoms later than usual, perhaps because of the cold weather during the Mid-Autumn Festival, it also postponed the flowering period.
The interaction of heat and ice atomized the magma into much finer particles than is typical, and created a steam cloud that sent the ash higher than usual into the air.
Renée regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
Fine, but we are busier than usual.
Scientists say the leaves will turn brown and fall off more quickly than usual,
She made more noise than usual and banged the dishes down so hard I thought they would break.
Raindrops can absorb sound, make the environment more quiet than usual, and people who travel on rainy days are less than usual. So I am afraid that besides the dripping sound of raindrops, All I can hear is the voice of my heart.
Fang Lijia made a complaint, and his strength was much greater than usual. The Mongolian army almost broke a bone. He held his knee and opened his mouth, but could not utter a word. Beans of sweat came out of his forehead one by one.
The volume in the hallway seemed even louder than usual.
The self-discipline required to drag myself out of bed eleven minutes earlier than usual was considerable.
Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute tempest of worrying and yelping.
He came home later than usual.
He drank more brandy than usual; held up his head briskly, and swore louder than ever in the day-time
After the second night I was desperate. I had nothing to eat because I travel slower than usual when I have something in my belly that is tickling me.
Offer a slightly lower quotation, which is 2% lower than usual; 7 Offer a lower quotation, which is 5% lower than usual.
With such a fine crop of cocoons the villagers had never dreamed that their lot would be even worse than usual!
The rose-bushes have come into bud much later than usual.
A size that is larger than usual.
As I continued to thread the tall woods I could hear from far before me not only the continuous thunder of the surf, but a certain tossing of foliage and grinding of boughs which showed me the sea breeze had set in higher than usual.
Fewer herring than usual have been landed this year.
"It was y-you?" Harry said at last, his teeth chattering, his voice weaker than usual due to his near-strangulation.
Then one day Mama got up earlier than usual. She marched to the kitchen and made breakfast.
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