Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adv] [adv] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a wage would have been comparable to or even slightly better than that paid to other craftsmen in the area . |
| 2 | Or maybe even further than that : to those warm sunny days when she sat watching her Daddy and asking him questions and he told her like he always did - ‘ Go and play , there 's a good girl . ’ |
| 3 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 4 | With only 400,000 people and lots of bauxite , there is no good reason why Suriname should not be as democratic as and rather better off than most of the little states of the Caribbean . |
| 5 | Her mother , my Grandmother Anne , was a Sayers , and they were the Manor House family in Bowes and rather better off than most . |
| 6 | The regulation and growth of cells was much more complicated than originally believed , and so far more than 40 different types of oncogenes have been discovered in experiments using retroviruses , said the assembly citation . |
| 7 | Until recently acetylcysteine was not recommended for use more than 15 hours after overdose , but there is now evidence that it can safely be given to patients up to 24 hours after ingestion and perhaps even later than this . |
| 8 | It 'd be a full time job I should say , possibly one or two posts and perhaps even more than that . |
| 9 | In so many respects utterly ditferent from Wilde , Genet nevertheless also subverts the depth model of identity via the perverse dynamic , and perhaps more so than any other writer since Wilde . |
| 10 | They rarely live in temperatures of less than 25C ( 75F ) and the banks on which they grow are mainly between three and five , and only occasionally more than five , fathoms deep . |
| 11 | Not only are a majority of those retiring today fitter , more skilled and better off financially than any previous generation , but with early retirement increasingly becoming the norm , a great many of us can realistically look forward to 25 years or more of active life ahead . |
| 12 | The student population of universities is growing , though less steadily and much more slowly than that of polytechnics . |
| 13 | Not by any means always , but more often than not ; and much more often than most . |
| 14 | Glasses washed in dishwasher were streak free , bright and generally far better than those washed in the sink . |
| 15 | And probably even less than that , now I think of it , two hours that 's quite a long time is n't it Peter ? |
| 16 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 17 | If foxes have to be killed , then shooting strikes me as being as decent a method as any , and probably far better than most . |
| 18 | Benefits were distributed socially and spatially less widely than anticipated . |
| 19 | If a display does happen now that display is down to 2 handbrake turns and certainly no longer than 2 minutes , because of the success of the operation . |
| 20 | Work content should result in target times of preferably two to three days and definitely not more than five days . |
| 21 | Just then the telephone rang , not as softly as before , but still more quietly than usual . |
| 22 | Again , local authorities vary , but probably not more than 3 or 4 , including any under-5 's of your own . |
| 23 | Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare . |