Example sentences of "[was/were] older than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Female patients who had accidents were older than the male patients : those at risk being 76 years old or over . |
| 2 | If not quite ‘ that elderly British pair ’ as they were described by one TV station , they were older than the other writers and this sometimes had its benefits . |
| 3 | Both women were older than the people that they mixed with , in Manchester . |
| 4 | The patients in this study were older than the controls but that is unlikely to have had a significant effect on our results . |
| 5 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 6 | I must have got it wrong , for ‘ one ’ was older than the two brothers , Guy and Noël . |
| 7 | His name was Nguyen Seth , and he was older than the United States of America , older than the Black Plague , older than the written word , older than cultivated grain , older than the wheel , older than human language … |
| 8 | Jacques Villon , who was older than the others and seems on that account to have enjoyed a certain authority , is generally credited with having suggested the title . |
| 9 | He was older than the rest of us at Breakspear , you see , having tried for some years to make a go of a religious vocation before abandoning it in favour of teaching . |