Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are notorious slow starters and I was slower than most this season , mainly through work commitments . |
| 2 | Just three years later I was taller than any other human being at our school , teachers included . |
| 3 | I was taller than him in those days , would you believe . |
| 4 | I gave them money , full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person , even if he was a beggar . |
| 5 | And I was luckier than some . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was luckier than you . |
| 7 | I lameducked her just to show the Vestal Virgins that I was cleverer than they . |
| 8 | That seemed to me to be quite all right , since I was quite sure that I was better than the average man . |
| 9 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was quicker than him and he was quite slow . |
| 11 | I know I was sadder than at the end of most commissions when we finally broke up the team in the refreshment room of Waterloo Station after we had left the ship in Southampton . |
| 12 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 13 | However , the grandeur of the occasion impressed me and , as I was smaller than I am now , the boat seemed quite large . |
| 14 | Yeah , erm when I started digging up I was smaller than the fork , the fork was , yes ! |
| 15 | Not all that long ago , either ; I can remember seeing a man sweeping the paths in the park in Gallanach with a broom like that , when I was older than either of you are now . ’ |
| 16 | I then told him how old I was , and he thought I was older than I was , so that was the end of that relationship . |
| 17 | My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life . |
| 18 | DURING THE NEXT twelve years I was happier than I had ever been before . |
| 19 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 20 | By the time I 'd recovered I was skinnier than ever , having been rationed to an orange a day . |
| 21 | My year was born in 1946 — I was younger than most of my new classmates . |
| 22 | I think he thought I was younger than I am . |
| 23 | I was younger than LBJ , at least to start with , and I 'm definitely older than JFK , who 's even handsomer than I am . |
| 24 | I pointed to the fact that I was younger than when he took over . |
| 25 | Although at Grange Park Samwell did not introduce the Imperial staircase of three open flights to England , there is little doubt that his was grander than its precursor at Gunnersbury by John Webb [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 27 | Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive . |
| 28 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 29 | The City party had left Coventry on the two o'clock train , which was cheaper than the earlier ones but allowed no room for delay — and the engine broke down during the journey . |
| 30 | Believing in economy , Miss Lodsworth had already baked rock and fairy cakes and spread hundreds of sandwiches with crusts still on with Marmite and plum jam which was cheaper than strawberry . |