Example sentences of "larger [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 2 | The lowest common multiple is a larger or higher number than the H.C.F. |
| 3 | Whether he was changing his job , dabbling in accommodation suitable for lodging houses or seeking a larger or smaller house to suit an expanding and then a contracting family , the silversmith-cum-general salesman-cum-lodging-house keeper-cum-commercial clerk-cum-clerk to a manufacturing jeweller-cum-collector to a goldsmith-cum-writing clerk never seemed to settle for long in one place . |
| 4 | We have already seen several speakers — Susan , Stephen and Joan — whose " Patois " seems to consist of a larger or smaller number of adaptations of LE in the direction of JC . |
| 5 | Rather than moving towards unitary authorities we would be considering the re-establishment of the Greater London council — a new , larger and uglier version . |
| 6 | This is caused by a much larger and heavier engine , which also means you need a rudder trim , conveniently supplied in this range . |
| 7 | Facing a much larger and heavier opponent , the mantis would make lightning strikes from its claw-like front limbs , then beat a hasty retreat out of harm 's way when the grasshopper retaliated . |
| 8 | In a declining fishery , extra pressure is thus placed on fishermen to catch the larger and higher value yellowfin which associate with dolphins . |
| 9 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 10 | In some much larger and loftier room on the first floor , with net curtains at the window and the mulberry tree at the back of the Scottish Office just beyond , Tite waves him to a seat . |
| 11 | Higher pre-tax incomes move the individual up BC and imply that the government is taking a larger and larger fraction of total pre-tax income . |
| 12 | But , by the end of the 1980s , while a larger and larger proportion of the female population was in employment , it was seldom employment at a level of high command , and often not of a permanent kind . |
| 13 | In this respect they are going against the trend of owner-occupation accounting for a larger and larger proportion of the housing stock — in 1986 about 63 per cent in Great Britain , up from 26 per cent in 1947 ( Social Trends 18 , 1988 , Table 7 ; Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ) . |
| 14 | Hot favourite : through the 1980s the Great British Breakfast took a larger and larger share of total main meals served . |
| 15 | Subsequent attempts to diversify the economy have foundered not only on corruption and inefficiency , though these have played a part , but because Zambia could not mobilize the funds for new investment , since the growing debt burden took a larger and larger share of the national cake . |
| 16 | So policies to cut gas output below the current level will imply a larger and larger reduction below projected levels as years go by . |
| 17 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 18 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies and even larger and larger growth in more and more specialised information which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 19 | As they grow they become more powerful vacuum cleaners , affecting a larger and larger volume of space , and themselves becoming ever larger . |
| 20 | Capitalism 's hunger for additional workers creates a larger and larger class of waged workers . |
| 21 | As a black hole got smaller and hotter , it would emit a larger and larger number of different species of particles and would produce an explosion perhaps 100,000 times more powerful than the one calculated on the quark hypothesis . |
| 22 | In winter , when breast greyish , differs from Sanderling ( p. 129 ) in contrast between grey-brown upperparts and whiter underparts and no black shoulder spot , from much larger and greyer Knot ( p. 129 ) by white sides of rump and tail . |
| 23 | After ten years e rented and moved to Astley Hall , near Stourport , a larger and older stone house with Dutch gables and a wide , soft view across the broken Worcestershire countryside . |
| 24 | In some of the larger and older predator fish concentrations of methyl mercury can be very high need , and of course these are precisely the fish that are most sort after by the fishermen and by their customers . |
| 25 | In 1905 , the massacre on Bloody Sunday galvanised political opposition against Tsarism and was seen by Liberals and Marxist alike ‘ as the first engagement if a larger and longer battle ’ ( Rogger ) . |
| 26 | We can afford to take both a larger and longer view . |
| 27 | Larger and longer term studies are required , however , to define the role of TIPSS in the overall management of such patients . |
| 28 | When she came to Switham House , a much larger and better-kept establishment than Merchiston Lodge , she found Rosalia Alderley to have quite another motive . |