Example sentences of "though [not/n't] quite so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 2 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 3 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 4 | ‘ It can still be pretty hazardous , though not quite so bloody . ’ |
| 5 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |