Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Triumph did develop the Stag a little , but not enough to make the last of the series significantly better than the first . |
| 2 | To which the best answer is : a lot better than the first person in any queue organised by Mr Kaufman . |
| 3 | Our group of five to 12-year-olds pronounced the film ‘ brilliant ’ and ‘ even better than the first ’ . |
| 4 | The scientists — from the IBM Almaden Research Centre — say the storage capabilities of the new photorefractive polymers were on the order of 100 times better than the first polymer films , which IBM developed two years ago . |
| 5 | I dared not even glance at " Happy " , but to add insult to injury I gave the order " About turn ! " and they repeated the gazelle-like jump even better than the first time . |
| 6 | Nobody could ever bring themselves to putting an animal out of its misery because the farm was no longer talked about , although at the back of everybody 's mind was a dream of a new farm , even better than the first , with water being pumped from underground to irrigate the crops . |
| 7 | When its petrol tank exploded a few minutes later , the flames from the blazing car , the house and the cainca lit the dawn sky more brilliantly than the first rays of the rising sun . |
| 8 | In her foreword to Ordinary Justice , Mrs Sally Oppenheim-Barnes , chairman of the National Consumer Council , said the Council wanted all consumer debts ( even up to £25,000 ) dealt with in county courts , and the threat to seize goods used as a last resort rather than a first step in the enforcement process . |
| 9 | Then he reached the first green of the tournament proper — rather than the first green of the practice rounds . |
| 10 | Such conventions are common in English education where students are taught to use impersonal and passive forms rather than the first person . |
| 11 | In the light of the judgment in that case we would uphold the applicant 's objection to the proposed interview on the third rather than the first of the grounds put before us . |
| 12 | Erm , I seem to remember that when we met earlier in the year and you were looking forward to , to , to this year as a whole , I think you er , indicated that it was going to be a good year and I think you also suggested , if I remember right , that you thought the better part of that improvement would be seen in the second half rather than the first . |
| 13 | But at the time Mendeleev , like Clerk Maxwell , looked like the last word in an old discussion rather than the first in a new one . |
| 14 | I , I put that as number four , rather than the first three , which I think are terribly vital , so I would be grateful if these sort of things were taken on board . |
| 15 | a natural request erm th the Liberal Democrat one is much more workers and er , and er they mean the same thing , and I think I would er ask for this group er support er the second one rather than the first one . |
| 16 | Obviously , it is easier for them to develop in the Second Division rather than the First Division . ’ |
| 17 | The second was white , 6ft , well built , and with dark brown hair slightly longer than the first . |
| 18 | This second invasion of Caesar lasted not much longer than the first but he advanced farther into the country , having a larger army . |
| 19 | He said that he wrote stories , though he had to admit that he had never got further than the first two pages . |
| 20 | Yet she reached the station where she got out without having progressed any further than the first page . |
| 21 | This looked harder than the first two and I was concerned . |
| 22 | And harder than the first months are the first weeks . |
| 23 | And harder than the first weeks are the first days . |
| 24 | The agency says fathers were paying much too little , ninety percent of the mothers are living on social security , so are be definition far poorer than their ex-husbands , and that the formula always leaves the second family better off than the first . |
| 25 | Otherwise under section 46(2) the accused should be brought before a magistrate as soon as is practicable and in any event , not later than the first sitting after he has been charged . |
| 26 | Around the mid century the new complex fashion comes in from East Greece , but later than the first of these is the last of the old , the exquisite ‘ Peplos kore ’ ( 679 , fig. 39 ) . |
| 27 | The more normal condition is that it will only be available to those shareholders of the target who have accepted both the share offer and the cash alternative not later than the first closing date . |
| 28 | The ApT sites are cut with similar efficiency to many of the GC sites , though the second ApT in ( CG ) 5 TATATA(CG) 4 is cut less well than the first . |
| 29 | It was , he contended , the first manifestation of the child 's sexuality ; its roots lay a good deal earlier than the first birthday and the very experience of the " oral " relationship of early feeding provided the basis of relationships — for many people long after infancy . |
| 30 | The second effect would appear earlier than the first and would be manifest by a reduction of survival time — the interval between diagnosis of cancer ( incidence date ) and death . |