Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] other " in BNC.

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1 One was considerably shorter than the other .
2 She closed the front door , and from her rocking walk Jess realized that one of her legs must be a good deal shorter than the other .
3 The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it .
4 In some sense of ‘ appears ’ one of the lines in the familiar Müller-Lyer figure AB appears shorter than the other , BC .
5 ‘ Oh , I used to tread the boards , I am an actor all right but there are n't many roles for a man who sustained an injury that left one leg shorter than the other .
6 One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think .
7 As a child she had suffered from a mild case of polio , which left one leg slightly shorter than the other .
8 Eric was born with one leg shorter than the other .
9 One situation commonly encountered involves a molecule with two conformers , which are easily interconverted , with one marginally more stable than the other .
10 As the plane circled in wide sweeps , each one lower than the other , the Pack did pray — silently , sincerely — Brown Owl with them .
11 And er that poor devil i i it hit him and I know wen we got him out , one eye was about an inch lower than the other .
12 The instructions were to agree one answer to this question ‘ Are these two bricks the same size , or is one of them bigger than the other ? ’
13 It 's just one bigger than the other .
14 One foot 's bigger than the other .
15 Then I realised she was concerned about his cheeks ; one was definitely redder than the other .
16 This is especially important if one person is much heavier than the other .
17 Funny , that ; one 's so much taller than the other .
18 There are two stars of between the fourth and fifth magnitudes , one rather brighter than the other , making up a wide naked-eye pair .
19 By keeping the lower vee steeper than the other , we introduce what might be called a ‘ tail-effect ’ , so keep this in mind when you are practising for that first Rokkaku Challenge .
20 Of course any single checkerboard solution of an important issue will produce more instances of injustice than one of the alternatives and fewer than the other .
21 You find it more comfortable than the other ?
22 Once the width between the eyes had been determined and marked out , George worked on both eyes ; that way , neither eye ends up larger than the other .
23 Now one is much larger than the other .
24 and had one foot three sizes larger than the other .
25 Two deep , mournful noises , one a little deeper and more mournful than the other .
26 For example , we could , as an experiment , allocate similar child care cases randomly to different interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other .
27 Similarly , we may contrast the ‘ before and after ’ situations of alternative interventions to see whether one is more effective than the other .
28 But it 's too simplistic to pretend that one way is better than the other because the comparison is n't between like and like .
29 Neither approach is better than the other .
30 And you can not make qualitative prejudicial judgments and say one is better than the other .
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