Example sentences of "lot [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And it was a lot easier than the first time .
2 As somebody who is still under thirty and er like my good friend Mister young enough to have a positive approach to Europe , I am pleasantly surprised that the people opposite are gon na make my job a lot easier because the narrowness and the anti-diluvian attitudes that we see on the benches opposite explain why , in the last Euro elections , the Labour Party won a resounding victory on the issue of Europe .
3 ‘ The shock waves will be felt a lot further than the streets of Tyneside . ’
4 Not like a village it 's a parish it 's a lot bigger than a village
5 There was an odd-shaped room , not a lot bigger than the cab of the truck itself .
6 And one group is an awful lot bigger than the other group .
7 The architects were a lot smarter than the Governments .
8 And actually the graft site is a lot sorer than the burns .
9 It should all be a lot clearer when the Chancellor speaks next Thursday .
10 I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy .
11 As she was not in receipt of Old Age Pension , she was a lot younger than the other ladies , her church allowance was 4/ per week .
12 Other bores can also be used but the obvious point must be that a small charge in the right place is a lot better than a heavier charge badly directed .
13 ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said .
14 Those who are enraged by the state of disrepair of Bristol 's streets may derive a cold comfort from reading in Elizabeth Ralph 's pamphlet , The Streets of Bristol , that things were just as bad in the Middle Ages and that by the end of the 18th century the roads to Bristol were a lot better than the roads in it .
15 And he were a lot better than the Tory , and he held his own with which was saying something , saying something .
16 I 'm a lot better than the last time you saw me .
17 ‘ We spent a lot of time recording it and it is a lot better than the first album .
18 Yeah , it 's the first time these actually keep a lot better than the towelling ones .
19 I think we 'll all be a lot better when the summer gets here
20 ‘ It 's a lot colder than the Côte d'Azur in winter , ’ Melissa reminded her as they strolled on .
21 A Well I phoned this help line about the council tax and they were really helpful my bill was a lot cheaper than the original estimate , maybe you should give them a call ?
22 Well that 's a lot cheaper than the Jersey and Scottish holidays that we 're looking at !
23 Alright , so a pound spent in agriculture , alright , is much less , is worth a lot less than a pound spent elsewhere , right , cos farmers are relatively inefficient .
24 That is still a lot less than the $2 billion of robot sales once forecast for 1990 .
25 The actual title of the course matters a lot less than the content , but a word of caution is necessary here to help you differentiate between programmes designed to prepare you for re-entry to the profession , and those which may be open to nurses currently practising , namely ‘ refresher courses ’ .
26 Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan .
27 And there 's also some cases where er the plans have actually partially lapsed since last renewal and in which case it 's quoting the premium they 're paying now which is a lot less than the premium they were paying at renewal .
28 The effective transfer may therefore be a lot smaller than the nominal tax , particularly when there is a large difference between s r and s w .
29 And the quantitative distinction which is well illustrated by this photograph , which is completely typical let me get the one , hang on right , this is a photograph of a hamster ovum with a hamster sperm just fertilizing it there and you can see that the hamster sperm is a lot smaller than the hamster ovum , and this is totally typical , it 's smaller by many orders of magnitude .
30 The argument that Sizewell will make electricity cheaper than it would otherwise be , is probably a lot weaker than the board claims .
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