Example sentences of "[adj -er] than the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each club was deader than the last ; frigid and dirty , empty or inhospitable , with Robin increasingly silent and me feeling guilty for living in Hicksville . |
| 2 | What about the form United have never been further than the 4th round . |
| 3 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 4 | The second of these objectives may be easier than the first . |
| 5 | But , inexorably , each atoning lapse is easier than the last . |
| 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 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If that is true , as I hope it is , it may well be that the long-term trend of unemployment , which has seen troughs and peaks rising over the past 30 or 40 years with every trough and every peak getting higher , will turn round so that the peak of unemployment will be considerably lower than the last peak of unemployment . |
| 10 | For many people it 's riskier than the next approach and there is no guarantee of results ; but you will certainly have made a powerful impression on others . |
| 11 | The second wave was fifty yards away and bigger than the first . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This time they were a sickly blue-yellow and bigger than the last invasion , when they were red |
| 14 | Tony Benn is right to be dismayed at the talk of ‘ firework displays bigger than the Fourth of July ’ , but he 's wrong to deny that on some level this is what war has become . |
| 15 | Again heavier than the first two rocks with some slightly sharp edges . |
| 16 | But if each generation is heavier than the last , as is the case with quarks , then the third-generation neutrino could well be heavy enough to make W=1 . |
| 17 | The Cepheid variable R Crucis , between Acrux and Epsilon , is an easy binocular object , though it never becomes much brighter than the seventh magnitude . |
| 18 | It may be brighter than the third magnitude by Christmas morning , but by then it will be low and difficult in the SE twilight . |
| 19 | It may be brighter than the third magnitude by Christmas morning , but by then it will be low and difficult in the SE twilight . |
| 20 | This ice field was steeper than the first , and twice as high . |
| 21 | It was hotter than the last couple of days and there was a totally different bounce . ’ |
| 22 | This group was likely to be younger than the first . |
| 23 | Moreover , Marwnad Cynddylan ( ‘ Lament for Cynddylan ’ ) , perhaps by the bard , Meigant , may be of seventh-century date or at least no later than the ninth . |
| 24 | It is filled in each month and sent ( no later than the 15th of the following month ) to the Co-ordinator/National Secretary . |
| 25 | It depends on chronicles , on the evidence of laws , and on the decrees of councils that are mainly later than the Fourth Lateran . |
| 26 | Obviously its date of composition must be later than the last event mentioned — in the case of Exodus , the erection of the tabernacle . |
| 27 | If your statute is later than the last Continuation Volume it will probably be in the Current Statutes Service , composing loose-leaf binders containing the latest statutes , annotations and index . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |