Example sentences of "[adj] have a [adj -er] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It happened to be my birthday — I 've never had or am likely to have a better birthday dinner , I do n't mind being a year older every year for this ! |
2 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
3 | Fourth year pupils were the principal subjects of the study as they would be members of their school for a full school year and were likely to have a lower absentee rate than the fifth year . |
4 | What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years . |
5 | Within the United States , 10 states each have a greater land area than Britain : Alaska ( 586,412 square miles ) , Texas ( 267,339 square miles ) , and California ( 158,693 ) being the most notable . |
6 | NCRC-11 has a smaller coding region and it is therefore more likely to be expressed in other cancers . |