Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 2 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 3 | This is far less crude than the first example and propels the argument forward by its incorporation . |
| 4 | It was less acrimonious than the first time , but much more painful . |
| 5 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 6 | For example , the first syllable of ‘ poetic ’ is more prominent than the first syllable of ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 7 | They were , if that was possible , even more ferocious than the first time he had kissed her . |
| 8 | Active and vital service seemed more important than the first pip . |
| 9 | Was I making a monster more evil than the first creature ? |
| 10 | It was as if there was a wave of water and the wave turned a wheel and the wheel turned a cog and the cog turned a piston and the piston punched out a wave , bigger and more overwhelming than the first wave , turning a bigger wheel , a bigger cog , a bigger piston and then finally a wave that seemed enough to swallow everything in its path . |
| 11 | ‘ This is going to be more difficult than the first match , but I feel we 're ready for it . ’ |
| 12 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |