Example sentences of "bit [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously the City boys are a bit fussier than the country boys about when they play . |
| 2 | One leg was a bit shorter than the other , I think . |
| 3 | They changed that , so the money er it 's a bit different than the Maxwell , the money has n't been erm a switched over to the Cayman Islands and all over the place , it 's it 's stayed in , in the but of course we 're told by the trustees and by our legal advice that nothing illegal 's taken place , the money 's been used to st er finance early voluntary retirement etcetera , etcetera . |
| 4 | Yes that 's right , it might have even been a little bit bigger than the back room , but very seldom used . |
| 5 | So you said here to replace the two pipes , the sort of medium pipe and the small pipe you 'll have one that 's a bit bigger than the big pipe . |
| 6 | Mm Bit bit your 's will be a bit bigger than the average Chesapeake Bay Retrievers . |
| 7 | It 's also quite a bit heavier than a similar garment in , say , Polartek 300 . |
| 8 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 9 | ‘ Sixteen or Seventeen — I was a bit younger than the others . |
| 10 | He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be . |
| 11 | It 's a bit better than a hundred and one pound ninety two pence . |
| 12 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 13 | But ones a bit politer than the other that 's all . |
| 14 | Bound to be cos litre 's l bit less than a gallon in n it ? |
| 15 | An annuity is an arrangement with a financial institution whereby , if you are over retirement age and do not want to leave your property to anyone when you die , they will effectively buy your house from you ( albeit at a bit less than the market price ) , give you guaranteed security of tenure until you die , and turn the money that they pay you for the house into a regular income for life . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
| 17 | ‘ I might make a little bit more than a social worker and I get to enjoy myself with my clients ’ . |
| 18 | Ken Russell 's production is certainly easy on the eye , but fans are expecting a bit more than a well-turned ankle . |
| 19 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 20 | When Chelsea wanted a bit more than the £2.5million United offered for Andy Townsend , the club pulled out of the deal . |
| 21 | That 's a bit more than the others , so keep stumm about it . ’ |
| 22 | It takes a bit more than the tuppence for paper and string which contented the children in Mary Poppins to make one of these . |
| 23 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 24 | See , now I deliberately sit , when I 'm out in a Land Rover , with one arm up a bit higher than the other and one leg a bit higher . |
| 25 | The first finalist has emerged in the Haslemere Combination League , Admirals ‘ B ’ defeated Grange ‘ B ’ by a margin of 13 points ( plus handicap ) in a match which saw the home team 's men that little bit stronger than the visitors . |
| 26 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 27 | Mars takes a bit longer to revolve on its axis than the Earth , so a Mars afternoon would be a bit longer than an Earth afternoon . |