Example sentences of "[adj] in [adj] [noun] than they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 2 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 3 | Although incomes in the 1980s were substantially higher in real terms than they were at the end of the 1950s , there has been no sustained decrease in inequality ; in fact , as we saw in chapter 5 ( figure 5.5 ) , income inequality in Britain increased sharply after 1976 . |
| 4 | However , it has also been suggested that since there is a dominance hierarchy among the females and only the subordinates do badly , it may be that it is only younger females that fare worse in big harems than they would if they were monogamous . |
| 5 | Most bereaved people soon begin to discover that grief does not settle in their life like a gravestone , permanent and immovable : it lives , moves and changes , like all great emotions , and they finally emerge from it not crippled , but stronger in many ways than they were before , in spite of their loss . |
| 6 | Though an edge is given to the violins , making them sound less sweet in exposed passages than they should , the recording has a fullness and warmth to bring out the brilliance and refinement of the orchestration . |