Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj -er] than the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You do n't look a day older than the last time I worked with you . ’ |
| 2 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 3 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ We spent a lot of time recording it and it is a lot better than the first album . |
| 5 | I 'm a lot better than the last time you saw me . |