Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj -er] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a bit laxer but a lot of them were very very strict . |
| 2 | That 's a bit better because a gradient of one is forty five degrees and we s we said it should be more than that . |
| 3 | yeah , but I need to be a bit skinnier and a bit taller |
| 4 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 5 | Is a computer better than a doctor ? |
| 6 | This tiny car — it 's a foot shorter than a Mini — might be the breath of fresh air Europe 's choked and choking cities have been looking for . |
| 7 | More than 200 pages later Genet writes ‘ out of the crowd a glance swifter than a wink reveals two fedayeen as two lovers … |
| 8 | There were no houses , no people , no hills , and not a rock bigger than a cricket ball . |
| 9 | A fate worse than a cookbook |
| 10 | Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the years I 've learned that you have this endearing ability to spot a chance to make a profit further than a leopard can spot a limp . |
| 12 | It sounds a lot louder and a lot prettier . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 15 | Not like a village it 's a parish it 's a lot bigger than a village |
| 16 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . ’ |
| 17 | It has made me a lot tougher and a lot more businesswise . |
| 18 | The food was not too good , nor too plentiful , so when I returned I was a lot lighter and a lot fitter . |
| 19 | The six-cylinder lay-out , of course , makes for smooth engine performance and that , combined with plenty of sound-proofing measures , means that the BMW diesel is a lot quieter and a lot more refined than any other diesel I 've driven — without exception . |
| 20 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 21 | In a brain bigger than a city , with geological slowness , He thinks only of the Weight . |
| 22 | Anyone who thinks Claire is sincere must have a brain smaller than a mouse dropping . |
| 23 | Helped by gearing that 's a trifle lower and a torque peak shifted down to 3,200rpm , the Legacy can be booted around on little throttle ; engine response to small pedal movements is swift and crisp . |