Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] the last " 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 | But , inexorably , each atoning lapse is easier than the last . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This time they were a sickly blue-yellow and bigger than the last invasion , when they were red |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was hotter than the last couple of days and there was a totally different bounce . ’ |
| 7 | Obviously its date of composition must be later than the last event mentioned — in the case of Exodus , the erection of the tabernacle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last . |
| 10 | The new edition is even larger than the last and runs to 925 pages , partly because of some repetition ; for example , the full name of the privy Council is given twice on the same page as is the statement that its jurisdiction extends only to Great Britain . |
| 11 | Actually , she looked better than the last time Anne had seen her alive . |
| 12 | ‘ We have a quality street team to welcome the Aussies , ’ said Probyn , ‘ and I intend to go one better than the last time I faced them — the World Cup final 12 months ago . ’ |
| 13 | As well as the obvious twoplayer option , there 's the one-player MicroProse Challenge where you play a series of international teams , each one better than the last . |
| 14 | Every project you undertake will be better than the last and before long you will be able to say : ‘ Well , that 's not too bad but I 'm sure that the next job will be perfect . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm a lot better than the last time you saw me . |
| 16 | This show will be even better than the last one and is not to be missed ! |
| 17 | The new batch of home-brew tasted better than the last lot , and stronger . |
| 18 | Can you us a bit more explanation as to why you say the first three sectors are better than the last three , |
| 19 | His wife added : ‘ I just hope this honeymoon goes better than the last . |
| 20 | They 're better than the last week 's , yes we had trouble with them . |
| 21 | That book sounds far better than the last one . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't look a day older than the last time I worked with you . ’ |
| 23 | Weaker than the last , it holds that beliefs given us as ‘ data ’ are never fully justified merely for that reason , but that all such beliefs are already partially justified , quite apart from any further support they may receive from other beliefs . |
| 24 | He looked even paler and weaker than the last time I had seen him . |
| 25 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 26 | EACH new indignity in the heap visited on Welsh rugby seems worse than the last . |
| 27 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 28 | It was one wild party after another , each one worse than the last . |
| 29 | Despite recession , the pre-tax total of £801 million was just £151 million short of the record profits struck in 1989 and the new chairman , Sir Robin Ibbs , said : ‘ One has to be a super pessimist to think the current year will be worse than the last one , ’ though he warned that ‘ it is too soon for me to predict the extent or timing of the recovery ’ . |
| 30 | They were all codes meaning : ‘ Yes , I 'll go higher than the last bidder . ’ |