Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby Freely was just nineteen , only a couple of years or so older than the oldest boy at Burleigh . |
| 2 | Brown also faults the NT desktop manager as being much less flexible than the best Unix has to offer . |
| 3 | Although a long way off the summit , it is still higher than the tallest mountain in Europe . |
| 4 | Near the gate , where grass is kept short by trampling feet , grows germander speedwell , its blue flowers more vivid than the clearest summer sky . |
| 5 | We wanted to build a pyramid that was going to be slightly bigger than the biggest pyramid in Egypt . |
| 6 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 7 | If you were to smooth out all the material there is in the universe into a uniform sort of sea of particles , you would find that the density was just about one atom in every cubic metre , which is far better than the best vacuum that you can ever make on earth by artificial means . |