Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curists still come , it seems , to drink , gargle or bathe in the baths at the top of the town , but since the end of the last war the cure has been democratized ; in an age of health insurance many can afford it who before could not , and contemporary spa-goers both demand less and live less expensively than their more frivolous predecessors . |
| 2 | Edward never proposed to me , I never ‘ accepted ’ him , yet here we are just as much engaged and much more so than lovers of whom I have read . |
| 3 | He 'd always admired his superior and never more so than when a victim of his contempt . |
| 4 | Not only are a majority of those retiring today fitter , more skilled and better off financially than any previous generation , but with early retirement increasingly becoming the norm , a great many of us can realistically look forward to 25 years or more of active life ahead . |
| 5 | Glasses washed in dishwasher were streak free , bright and generally far better than those washed in the sink . |
| 6 | Othello is larger-than-life and never more so than when determined to die , as White demonstrates in a nobly paced resumption of dignity in the difficult final scene . |