Example sentences of "[adj -er] 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 | As the plane circled in wide sweeps , each one lower than the other , the Pack did pray — silently , sincerely — Brown Owl with them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? ’ |
| 12 | It 's just one bigger than the other . |
| 13 | One foot 's bigger than the other . |
| 14 | Then I realised she was concerned about his cheeks ; one was definitely redder than the other . |
| 15 | This is especially important if one person is much heavier than the other . |
| 16 | Funny , that ; one 's so much taller than the other . |
| 17 | There are two stars of between the fourth and fifth magnitudes , one rather brighter than the other , making up a wide naked-eye pair . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Now one is much larger than the other . |
| 21 | and had one foot three sizes larger than the other . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Neither approach is better than the other . |
| 24 | And you can not make qualitative prejudicial judgments and say one is better than the other . |
| 25 | Both these directors fared much better than the other I have mentioned insomuch as they were working right up until their death . |
| 26 | If just these three are taken , Trollope 's view of women seems to be quite reasonable , though rather odd for his time , and encompasses all types — from the ordinary to the extraordinary — without really saying one is better than the other . |
| 27 | It 's it makes it so easy that the staff , one ca n't dress any better than the other . |
| 28 | The property of being whiter is an obvious example , for one thing is compared with another when we say it is whiter than the other . |
| 29 | If one of a couple is disabled or older than the other , the couple will qualify for the higher amount . |
| 30 | But ones a bit politer than the other that 's all . |