'adequate than' is not a correct or usable phrase in written English.
You would use 'more adequate than' instead. Example: His performance was more adequate than expected.
But truth is messier, and justice less adequate than we acknowledge.
As a response to the attacks, "Threnodia" is no more adequate than any of the other memorial works; most have been played once and filed quietly away.
The railway system is much less adequate than that of the roads; the southwestern part of the country is the best-served area.
Richard I. Smith, vice president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a lobby for drug makers, said he believed that Medicare payments to companies offering drug benefits might be more adequate than the payments to H.M.O.'s.
His jobsearch was far more adequate than most, but managers specifically spent time going through it and comparing it to his agreement to see where they could trip him up.
[A1.] Madison Avenue's Un-Super Bowl This year, the Super Bowl will be more "adequate" than "super" for Madison Avenue, losing its usual hyperbolic luster as a result of a triple whammy: the sluggish economy, the uncertain national mood and the intense competition for advertising dollars with the Winter Olympic Games.
President Leon Botstein told the graduates to use the tools they had acquired at Bard to counter a world obsessed with violence and never to forget the special if fleeting qualities of being an undergraduate on a college campus "where discourse is considered better and more adequate than the use of force".
The formulations based on FDEs are more adequate than the previously used classical integer-order models.
Fractional-order models are found to be more adequate than integer-order models in some real-world problems.
We conclude that TTR 1.2 is more adequate than TTR 1.1 especially for higher strengths (5, 6).
We conclude that TTR 1.2 is more adequate than TTR 1.1 especially for higher strengths (5 and 6).
