Example sentences of "far [adj -er] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gold shares , though far dearer than they recently were , are still attractive to some who reckon on rising prices . |
| 2 | Yet even when ( or if ) Silo is sorted out , its profit margins ( and its costs ) will remain far lower than its UK counterpart 's . |
| 3 | The ending of the cold war has made Mr Bush 's administration far readier than its predecessors to shake Israel 's Likud government out of its self-destructive policy of permanent occupation . |
| 4 | But every minute in his consulting room I was conscious of the dozen or more , far sicker than me , waiting outside . |
| 5 | Far weightier than you would expect . |
| 6 | Only that Daisy had once been far prettier than her … |
| 7 | Biarritz remains a tremendously solid , lordly town , far wealthier than anything else in this part of France . |
| 8 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 9 | ‘ She asked if you were all right , ’ Leith replied , not certain that she was n't breaking confidences , but feeling she would have to be far tougher than she was not to give in to his unspoken plea for some salve on his pain . |
| 10 | Planning a new fitted bathroom is far easier than you ever imagined . |
| 11 | Getting upside-down is far easier than it looks — it just needs the right combination or circumstances . |
| 12 | The object of radical legislation is to introduce a more refined and coherent form of gradation which will ensure , inter alia , that guilty defendants are not able to bargain their way into sentences which are far lighter than they deserve . |
| 13 | Lisa slept like a stone in the big double bed — far comfier than her own bed at home — and awoke to find Emily already up and dressed , pulling on her green rubber wellies . |
| 14 | See that launch at Lincolnshire , their P R department are far bigger than ours |
| 15 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |
| 16 | Evidence of fossil tracks shows Allosaurus stalked large herbivores , and that it was accustomed to killing and eating animals far larger than itself . |
| 17 | The Workshops of the Looms were far larger than he had expected . |
| 18 | ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned . |
| 19 | For the tiny group of declared nationalists , cultural and linguistic oppression loomed large , far larger than it could for an illiterate peasantry ( although the use of the Ukrainian language had considerable popular support ) . |
| 20 | The two radical solutions were described in such extreme terms that the middle ground was made to seem huge and inviting , far larger than it actually was . |
| 21 | ‘ Miss Oliver will forget me in a month , and will probably marry someone who 'll make her far happier than I ever could ! ’ |
| 22 | A local rag did a write-up : ‘ As a testimony to their good eating , they look far younger than their ages ’ . |
| 23 | He looked totally vulnerable , and for once far younger than his years . |
| 24 | It is also rather moving today to see Dustin easily managing , with some help from adept make-up , to look far younger than his years , at the dawn of stardom . |
| 25 | ‘ Tealtaoich is far braver than he 'd like you to think , ’ said Feradach . |
| 26 | The threats to children to silence colleagues who , far braver than he had ever been , asked the uncomfortable question , or asked any question at all . |
| 27 | As Hunt puts it , far straighter than anyone else has ever dared do , ‘ They seemed to be of the opinion that their drivers should n't be paid . |
| 28 | We soon discovered , not surprisingly , that she could cope with a curry far hotter than we could eat . |
| 29 | This is a very special breed , the smallest of those of the Channel Islands , with some unusual features and a remarkable ability to adapt to extreme climates , especially those far hotter than it ever experienced on the island of its isolated development . |
| 30 | Despite inflation and Schiller 's resignation , West Germany 's economic performance was far better than her Western partners , and growth was still over 3 per cent . |