Sentence examples for happens than from inspiring English sources

Ministers have always hated pulling levers and discovering that less happens than they hoped.

Of course, there's an awful lot of supposition here; the authors are more convincing in arguing that this sort of contagion happens than in explaining how it happens.

But the play, which was inspired, in part, by Eugene Ionesco's 1950 "anti-play" about marriage and social fakery, "The Bald Soprano," is less about what happens than about how it happens — which, in the theatre, means how it's said.

As is always true of Mr. Foote's work, what keeps you watching lies less in what happens than in how his characters try and fail to prevent the inevitable, a tension that operates on levels big and small.

But now JP is up to 12.5p and Ray, with more than 51m of them, has seen his bank account take a £3.1m bounce – bigger, as it happens, than the £1.52m profit his papers have just recorded.

But the play, which was inspired, in part, by Eugene Ionesco's 1950 "anti-play" about marriage and social fakery, "The Bald Soprano," is less about what happens than about how it happens which, in the theatre, means how it's said.

"But nothing more happened than kissing".

Yet less has happened than many people expected.

I'd rather see something happen than wait for inspiration".

"In life, defeats are more likely to happen than wins," Magni said.

I believe it is preferable to miss something that happened than give something that hasn't.