Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing can be more exciting than the first time that you are given some flowers , and particularly red roses . |
| 2 | This second language is less expressive than the first . |
| 3 | The last ( held by Florence Nightingale and Charles Kingsley , to name only two ) was for a time more popular than the first ; and although to some extent the preventive measures suggested by each did overlap , their priorities were somewhat different . |
| 4 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 5 | The second of these objectives may be easier than the first . |
| 6 | For example , in the word ‘ father ’ the second syllable , which is weak , is shorter than the first , is less loud and has a vowel that can not occur in strong syllables . |
| 7 | The feature in question is that the second half of a parallelistic couplet ( line B ) is often more precise or specific than the first half ( line A ) . |
| 8 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , this searcher may well be interested in titles like " The ecology of the smaller rodents " , but these should be ranked lower than the first two . |
| 10 | The next item ( Example SO ) is an example of a single list of charges , but the table is more crowded than the first one illustrated and there is a good deal more information to absorb . |
| 11 | For example , the first syllable of ‘ poetic ’ is more prominent than the first syllable of ‘ pathetic ’ . |
| 12 | Furthermore , it is my conviction that this artifice is more dangerous than the first and is widespread in the secular culture and the churches . |
| 13 | This second problem is more dangerous than the first because the user may not realize that information is missing . |
| 14 | The second wave was fifty yards away and bigger than the first . |
| 15 | A boy next door called Rupert Entwistle had told her that if you chopped off a newt 's tail , the tail stayed alive and grew into another newt ten times bigger than the first one . |
| 16 | Again heavier than the first two rocks with some slightly sharp edges . |
| 17 | Both errors suggest weak visual memory : the second is more serious than the first . |
| 18 | This ice field was steeper than the first , and twice as high . |
| 19 | Either is an expression of a painful emotional attitude , but the second is much more likely than the first to arouse defensiveness . |
| 20 | One of the reasons for using a recognition task was that it seemed less likely than the first study which used a recall test to be biased by the fact that subjects were aware that the study was concerned with risk . |
| 21 | But the new explanation was n't much more satisfactory than the first . |
| 22 | This group was likely to be younger than the first . |
| 23 | They were , if that was possible , even more ferocious than the first time he had kissed her . |
| 24 | It will be at least three times larger than the first show , held last year , and will represent every area of self build , from finance to land plots , as well as house design ‘ packages ’ and most related building and interior products . |
| 25 | This first reactor was demolished and a second one begun , even larger than the first , and built in a hole in the ground — the same scale of construction as a U-boat shelter . |
| 26 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
| 27 | Although this second version of the logogen model is considerably more elaborate than the first , it is still seriously incomplete . |
| 28 | I was glad to get your last letter , which sounded so much more cheerful and relaxed than the first . |
| 29 | So the second pulse then , is mu it evokes a much weaker current than the first pulse did . |
| 30 | The second algorithm is necessarily more complex than the first . |