21.   Four years ago, James was easily re-elected without a run-off in a three-way race against opponents less well known than Rice and Ms. Crump.

22.   His company, still less well known than others of its size, avoids slapping the Columbia name on its hospitals.

23.   His name is now much better known than before.

24.   His taste for collecting paintings by Titian and Hieronymous Bosch is generally less well known than his brutal repression of opponents around the globe.

25.   If I had started instead with Yahoo, www.yahoo.com, which a lot more people know about than Best Fares, I also would have done fairly well.

26.   In Boston cultural circles, his name is less well known than that of his wife, Norma Jean, an expert in Islamic art.

27.   In other words, our fashion stars are better known than many of our baseball stars.

28.   In none of those states, though, is Bradley better known than in New York, or better positioned to score his first victory against Gore.

29.   It is in our interest and the public interest to have this done because it is better to know than not to know.

30.   It was then that he took the name Beat Takeshi, by which he is far better known than by his real name, Takeshi Kitano.