Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [adj -er] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 2 | As it was , with two glasses of champagne inside her , and as the mannequins displayed the latest fashions from Paris and London , she felt she was once more in heaven , even more so two hours or so later as Mr O'Hara 's chief assistants wrapped up the final choices : dresses , gowns and lingerie made of georgette , and flowered taffetas , moires , silks and satins , subtle lamés , artificial marocain and crêpe de Chine , in colours of white or pastel blue , cerise , pearl-grey , oyster and of course rose-opaline . |
| 3 | Toby Freely was just nineteen , only a couple of years or so older than the oldest boy at Burleigh . |
| 4 | Josey , who lived next door with her husband Charlie , had a son a year or so older than Emily . |
| 5 | His self defence , and I now read from actually only a paragraph or so earlier than my opening passage , his self defence in the reason of Church government is quite interesting erm ‘ If I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write thus out of mine own season , when I have neither yet completed to my mind the full circle of my private studies , although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand , or were I ready to my wishes it were a folly to commit anything elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted listening of these tumultuous times . |
| 6 | After all , he was fifteen years or so younger than I , and presumably still intellectually immature , despite all his literary and philosophical name-dropping . |
| 7 | If the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system were sometimes or always lower than the thresholds from logogen system to cognitive system , one could then explain subception ( gaining access to the meaning of a word without being able to report the word ) and also semantic errors which occur in the condition known as deep dyslexia in which single printed words are often incorrectly read as semantically related words , e.g. reading storm as thunder . |
| 8 | Standard weepers are produced by budding and sometimes grafting , rambler types into stems a foot ( 30cm ) or more higher than bush types in order to enhance the weeping effect . |
| 9 | The body fluids of marine fish are generally more dilute than those of sea water , and would be expected to freeze at temperatures of -0.6° to -0.8°C ( Schmidt-Nielsen , 1975 ) , a degree or more higher than the freezing point of polar sea water . |
| 10 | The summary which follows is a guide to the probable areas of difficulty , based on the current levels of performance of pupils a year or more younger than those who will be taking GCSE . |
| 11 | As you have an 8:1 compression engine ( or slightly higher if the cylinder head has been skimmed ) set the timing to 3 deg A T D C and the pinking should disappear . |
| 12 | This , Mr Miller has argued ( in a 1990 article in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance called ‘ The MM Propositions After 30 Years ’ ) , left the incentive to borrow as high or even higher than it was in 1963 . |
| 13 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 14 | Instead of being as high or even higher than the overall rate of self-employment , the rate of self-employment amongst temporary workers is only half that for all workers . |
| 15 | I can see them appealing to players who want to change from a rack unit crammed with sounds that are hardly ( if ever ) used , back to something which is as simple as , or even simpler than a row of pedals . |
| 16 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 17 | It is very warm and rather bulkier than the old one , though the nice girl in John Lewis told me they get thin and tired after about nine years — and mine has done twelve , so it is going to go to for our use there . |
| 18 | We can ready quickly , we can learn things quickly , we can cope , we can act on the whole rather better and rather quicker than the Continentals . |
| 19 | The one with his arm round her calling her darling was much older than she was and rather older than the thin other man . |
| 20 | It feels compact and rather smaller than it actually is . |
| 21 | He even came across a restricted locality where lived a colony of what must have been a new sub-species of the extremely rare , Small Mountain Ringlet butterfly , for they were at a much reduced altitude to their normal haunts , and altogether smaller than the regular species . |
| 22 | These tacit understandings , which , in Sidney Low 's graphic phrase , are so often misunderstood , may not be written down ; yet they exert a normative influence upon those concerned with central/local relations comparable to , and perhaps greater than , the influence exerted by a constitutional document . |
| 23 | This leads to tensions which are somewhat higher than original for some of the harpsichords and somewhat lower than original for the later pianos . |
| 24 | Their tests were cheaper and apparently fairer than local ‘ home-made ’ ones and they conveniently transferred the odium that selection incurred on to a distant , impartial public body . |
| 25 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 26 | Making an allowance for this , and taking into account the proportion of members ' savings actually loaned out , would put the effective cost of credit union loans at the time of this comparison at around 17.5 per cent : still as cheap as the very cheapest commercial alternative then , and much cheaper than most . |
| 27 | ‘ With the current revival in the use of brass stair rods , the carpet made from black-faced Scottish wool is ideal for this purpose as it 's very hard-wearing and much cheaper than the traditional Brussels weave carpets . ’ |
| 28 | TP280 , a Mk.XVIII , a Griffon-powered machine , longer and much heavier than the ‘ lX TE566 , was running a little behind schedule and perilously close to the show deadline . |
| 29 | Productivity in cotton-spinning was almost equal to the US level , and much higher than that in Europe . |
| 30 | But nothing so romantic ever transpired there , and the coffee was as bad as railway coffee has always been , and much worse than it is now . |