1.   A significant feature is that for many of these companies their overseas activities are more important than their domestic ones.

2.   A willingness to learn and perseverance are much more important than candles on a birthday cake.

3.   Accuracy and steadiness under pressure are more important than the ability to produce the odd unplayable ball.

4.   Around here, the conventional wisdom is that the number and volume of charges are more politically important than subsequent facts.

5.   At the last Olympics, sports seemed to be less important than the blatant commercialism of the merchandise suppliers.

6.   Bauhaus architects thought that function was more important than form.

7.   Breadth of knowledge will be more important than technical proficiency.

8.   But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city?

9.   Could you single out one factor that is more important than the others?