Example sentences of "[adj -er] than the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 2 | The track , lifted from the recently released ‘ Lucky Town ’ LP , is backed with ‘ Tougher Than The Rest ’ , recorded at the LA Sports Arena on April 27 . |
| 3 | Tougher than the rest : Ms Tyler in '88 |
| 4 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 5 | Corbett was tired , depressed : the passing sights caught his eye : a dog , one leg shorter than the rest , sniffing at the bloated body of a rat : a cat running by , his mouth stuffed with baby mice , a beggar , white-eyed and sore-ridden , shrieking at young boys who were pissing over him . |
| 6 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 7 | Also , the four members of the False Cross are more equal than those of Crux , where one star in the pattern ( Delta Crucis ) is markedly fainter than the rest . |
| 8 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 9 | He doubted if these boys had been playing soccer — Hurstdown 's sporting young gentlemen would surely scorn such a plebeian game — and , sure enough , the boy bringing up the rear , older and taller than the rest and evidently in charge , was clutching a rugby ball to his chest . |
| 10 | The ‘ on ’ type is saying that the centre of its particular region of the visual field is brighter than the rest , while the ‘ off ’ type is saying that it is darker . |
| 11 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 12 | Only the last was pretty , and younger than the rest . |
| 13 | ( Of course , Natalie was n't silly ; she was , in fact , a year younger than the rest of the first-year students , having kept a year ahead at school . ) |
| 14 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 15 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 16 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 17 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 18 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 19 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 20 | There was a square in the grille larger than the rest , probably used to feed the dogs . |
| 21 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |
| 22 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 23 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 24 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 25 | In Scotland the track record is better than the rest of Britain , with Employment Service staff maintaining its target of ensuring that 3 per cent of its job placements are for disabled people , according to its Scottish director , Alan Brown . |
| 26 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 27 | Can you tell whether you think that finger 's colder than the rest ? |
| 28 | This was the spare room , the room that had once been a garage , and it was noticeably colder than the rest of the house . |
| 29 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 30 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |