Example sentences of "[noun] [adj -er] [conj] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Concrete , the standard high-speed track surface , is about a hundred times stiffer than a human runner . |
2 | It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 . |
3 | In computing values for cumulative distributions it is normal to consider values in terms of the percentage coarser than a given grain size . |
4 | Since a typical Enumeration District contains about 200 households , a 10% sample of a single ED is unreliable , and the 10% data should not be used for areas smaller than a few Enumeration Districts ( Cole 1993 ) . |
5 | The surface area of N small bodies is roughly the cube root of N larger than a single body formed by their accretion . |
6 | Rangers are likely to contest any punishment stronger than a one-match ban but it 's not all bad news . |
7 | Now , as far as my health is concerned these days it could be a little bit better but a bonny sight worse . |
8 | I was on the communal house phone , which is chained to the wall tighter than a medieval Bible , when the doorbell rang . |
9 | Topographic features are degraded by the impacts of bodies smaller than a few millimetres , by finely divided ejecta , by the solar wind and by seismic waves . |
10 | For a rating scale , the number of classes varies from 3 or 5 to perhaps 10 ; it is usually difficult to make distinctions finer than a 10-point scale requires . |
11 | Lymphocytes can be activated using a combination of a phorbol ester or a permeant DAG analogue to activate PKC and an ionophore to mimic the calcium-mobilizing action of InsP 3 . |
12 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
13 | A woman would be quite prepared to accept a wage lower than a male compositor 's , since it would probably still be a great improvement on what she could earn elsewhere . |
14 | Indeed , if there is one thing surer than a pre-Christmas ad for turkey stuffed with Paxo it 's a post-Christmas campaign for yet another Rosemary Conley thin-thigh theory . |
15 | Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed . |
16 | If there 's one thing worse than a poor singer , I do n't know what it is . … ’ |
17 | Touche Ross thought that the requirement was appropriate in relation to partnerships , but recommended that it should apply only to cheques made out for an amount greater than a specified sum — a suggestion also made by a number of others . |
18 | Precisely what is meant by ‘ any substantial finding of contributory negligence ’ is open to some dispute at present , the view having been expressed by one judge that any contributory negligence greater than a minimal amount , must be substantial and hence prevent any interim payment . |
19 | Instead of one strand as thick as string , there were dozens of fibres three times thinner than a human hair . |
20 | All my womenfolk are at least six inches taller and a few sizes bigger than you . ’ |
21 | They surged up and down in packs , clattering and scared in their riot-gear , lamming into anyone wearing skin darker than a ginger biscuit . |