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What are the Japanese constructions to express the following English formula?

**noun + verb + comparative degree + than I thought**

E.g.

_Today is colder than I thought._

_This works better than I thought._

Is it possible to say?

今日は思ったより寒いです。

これは思ったより上手く行く。
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noun + verb + comparative degree + than I thought
You got the good idea, but you just have to be careful to not make logical or
verb tense mistakes.

For example,

> 思ったより上手く行く

Should probably be

> 思ったより上手くいった。-> It went better than expected.  
>  思ったより上手くいっている。-> It is going better than expected.

Right now you are expressing present/future tense, which doesn't fit well with
your thought in the past. You could say it like that though.

> 思っているより上手くいくでしょ。-> It's probably gonna go better than your are thinking.

As for talking about things like the weather, you might want to use words like
予定 instead of 思い. There is a certain nuance between what you think and what is
planned.
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