Example sentences of "younger than his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1157 , the year of Richard 's birth , he was a solidly built young man of twenty-four , twelve years younger than his wife . |
| 2 | Ten years younger than his wife , he was the youngest son of the Revd George Fyler Townesend and grandson of the Revd George Townsend [ sic ] [ q.v. ] , a redoubtable cleric who had travelled to Italy in 1850 to try to convert the pope . |
| 3 | Seated in a hard-backed chair , Buchanan 's assistant , Sergeant Warden , several years younger than his chief , watched in silence , his dean-shaven face devoid of all expression . |
| 4 | One brother of hers , at least , rallied to the cause — Samuel Hasted , younger than his sister , who was a cooper living in Bermuda Street , Stepney , a small row of eight houses just off Commercial Road . |
| 5 | The law only applied to those born after 1990 , with the result that Harald 's son , Prince Haakon Magnus , remained heir to the throne even though he was younger than his sister , Princess Märtha Louise . |
| 6 | , second Duke of Cumberland and King George V of Hanover ( 1819–1878 ) , was born in Berlin 27 May 1819 , and was thus three days younger than his cousin , Queen Victoria . |
| 7 | Hitch was a couple of years younger than his boss but his long blond hair and perpetual sun tan ( the product of a solarium ) made him look closer to thirty than thirty-six . |
| 8 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 9 | He 's a very attractive man who looks younger than his age so why the hang-up ? |
| 10 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 11 | Probably sixty-three or sixty-four , and according to the photographs she had seen in newspapers and geographical magazines , and his occasional appearances on television , he looked considerably younger than his age , and very fit indeed . |
| 12 | Udairn was beside him , seeming younger than his son , and his wife Ethyrra was on his arm , looking like a frost-bitten starling . |
| 13 | Thomas is five or six years younger than his brother , knocking seventy ; he 's tall , lean and a bit owlish . |