Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You talk about spoilt rich middle-class kids over here , but the truth is if Steve or I saw their houses , we 'd probably think they were lower lower lower middle-class . ’
2 But nowadays we 're not , nowadays we , there 's a higher , a middle class and a lower class and a lower lower class .
3 Joan grew up feeling that she was loved less than her prettier younger sister .
4 Can the car be allowed to be just a car , no longer a symbol of defence against possible demands , feelings about a prettier younger sister or a manipulating mother ?
5 This in turn might be assisted or hindered by the treatment of vocational education as well as FE colleges , sixth form colleges and tertiary colleges as entities which are to be separately funded and managed under the Further Higher Education Act 1992 .
6 Investing for the future although , although we 've been keen to drive for cash er , we really wanted to , to use the benefit of having a strong balance sheet and so where investment has seemed sensible and sound , we 've made those investments , of course we 've put er , cash in the B Sky B er and we 've also invested further in the er Spanish group , the Recollectors Group taking our stake in expansion , adding some cash and getting a stake in the bigger bigger grouping .
7 Is there any chance of a bigger airier room , or is it just
8 With $26 million voted by Congress , a larger , newer , smarter Freer Gallery
9 Resembles a broader-winged longer-tailed Peregrine ( p. 93 ) , with upperparts mid-brown like a Buzzard ( p. 77 ) , its pale head distinguishing it from both Peregrine and Lanner , though this not always clearly visible ; moustachial streak barely perceptible .
10 His mother was hunting , his father watching from a rock a little way off , and Creggan was trying to win food from his bigger stronger sibling , another male , who had been born before him .
11 Almost any spirited teenager who lived in Detroit wanted to move to its bigger busier neighbour Now a lot of people would beg to differ that Chicago is more exciting ; Saunderson would most probably be one of them .
12 type with a heavier darker appearance .
13 These ideas proposed that the tail was asymmetrical , with a larger lower lobe and , when in use , tended to drive the head up to compensate for a heavy head shield and a lack of paired fins .
14 Two lower jaws , one from Lothagam in northern Kenya is now dated at older than 5.6Myr , and a slightly younger lower jaw from Tabarin from deposits just over 5Myr share very similar morphology with each other and with Australopithecus afarensis .
15 They include fragmented layered basic and ultrabasic intrusions and also younger Lower Proterozoic ( 2000 Ma ) supracrustal sedimentary and volcanic rocks which host the Gairloch Cu-Zn deposit .
16 Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse .
17 I think ideally what we 're saying er Mrs is that it 's er , it 's an interesting plant and being a native plant of course there 'll be wild life that feeds on it which is to the good but it 's probably a plant for a , a larger wilder garden really .
18 She is interested in religion and its cultural forms , but has a deeper darker interest in anonymous human fates and disappearances .
19 The Council at before the enquiry and during the enquiry erm suggested that a better site for the development would be within erm the larger earlier site , erm specifically at the extrusion the northern corner or northeasterly corner , where I erm where I 've marked .
20 It 's better better machine .
21 Er they are er they will be er very well treated , they will be offered the same er facilities as the guerillas have or even better fa better better treatment in some cases .
22 It is not sufficient to introduce the most up-to-date technology if a cheaper older technology is available or if the new work organisation will create serious employee unrest .
23 So the choice is between the very high initial cost of a fast charger and a couple of batteries , or a cheaper slower charger and several batteries which will have to be replaced earlier .
24 She 'd always enjoyed using her hands and gained immense satisfaction from shaping and moulding whatever material came to hand , be it driftwood , clay or plasticine , and had come quite accidentally into using boxwood and rosewood which gave a smoother warmer feel than other woods or stone .
25 Bunny was riding a smaller Younger animal , as black as her own hair , and one who evidently found the scent of the morning too exhilarating .
26 The new release is designed to enhance availability and faster faster recovery with support of partition independence and data compression and there are new multi-site update capabilities for use in client-server environments using Distributed Relational Database Architecture .
27 A voice stirred her from her reverie and Katherine turned to see a tall slim sandy-haired girl enter the room followed by a smaller rounder figure .
28 I think in the light of future demographic changes , potential changes in government educational policy and the increasing problems of student finance , modular or credit based patterns of study are essential if degree courses and subjects are to survive in a much harsher higher education world .
29 The Redcar Bowl may be ugly but there is worse nearer home : the penitentiary-like charm of the Cornmill and the flyaway Dolphin Centre , to mention two .
30 Refuge theory would predict that where forest now stands today , there would have been savanna and that the higher wetter country would have been the ‘ refugia ’ in glacial times .
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