Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] man 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What seems now a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand could turn out to be yet another inflationary and political storm for a government that could do without either . ’ |
| 2 | In time , a cloud no bigger than a man 's hand produced a thunderstorm . |
| 3 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 4 | It was smaller than a man 's thumb nail and Nicholson held it between the thumb and finger of his right hand with surprising delicacy . |
| 5 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 6 | LOVE has proved stronger than a man 's desire to change sex . |
| 7 | Burun cursed , and Rostov saw that the straw circle had been moved back and turned sideways so that it was no wider than a man 's forearm . |