Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truly hyperactive child sleeps very little ( possibly only four to five hours a night ) , has an attention span obviously shorter than other children and behaves in a way that is chaotic rather than simply energetic . |
| 2 | It is clear that , as the world becomes wealthier and other countries start to want the things that we want , there is a danger that we shall produce more and more waste . |
| 3 | If it becomes a question for the County Council to actually refund it then I think the report is right in that we must consider whether the needs for traffic calming here are any m higher or lower than other requests for traffic calming elsewhere in the county because you will be aware there are an awful lot of requests for traffic calming . |
| 4 | The low rate in sloths is probably associated with their lower metabolic rate ( 51% lower than other mammals of comparable size ) and daily lowering of body temperature . |
| 5 | Drs Lawrence Witmer and Kenneth Rose of the Johns Hopkins University 's School of Medicine realised that Diatryma was so much bigger than other birds that simple analogies of shape no longer applied . |
| 6 | ‘ As Anthony said to Cleopatra , as he opened a crate of ale , some girls are bigger than others , some girls ' mothers are bigger than other girls ' mothers … ’ |
| 7 | Superficially like an immature Herring Gull ( p. 151 ) , but with shorter wings and tail ; larger , heavier than other skuas , the white wing-flashes more marked . |
| 8 | Naively , we would expect many more ordinary quasars , because there is only a small chance of a beam pointing straight at us : but the calculation must also consider the fact that BL Lac objects would on average appear to be brighter than other quasars ( because the doppler effect brightens a beam coming towards us ) , and so we would tend to pick up more of them . |
| 9 | Women referred by GPs were generally younger than other women : 59 per cent of GP and 42 per cent of other referrals were aged between 16 and 44 . |
| 10 | The advertising 's actually larger than other products are currently spent on their advertising but w we feel that with the launch of a new product and trying to catch eight and a half percent of the mar market over erm three years that we do need to spend heavily in the department so like I say that 's forty percent . |
| 11 | The turning circle of the 16V and RSi models is slightly larger than other Clios at 35.6ft ( 10.86m ) between kerbs and 36.9ft ( 11.26m ) between walls . |
| 12 | Because they are larger than other cells and have special staining cytoplasm that is easily recognizable , a trail of migrating cells can be seen in the embryo . |
| 13 | This kind of contrast between different approaches to user needs is starker when other versions are considered . |
| 14 | He is not necessarily cleverer than other workers , but his commitments are less likely to make him jeopardise his job . |
| 15 | Then people , for some ideological reason , people might say , well , you know , you ca n't say one form of communication is better than another , so that say , I do n't know , I suppose , a kind of feminist belief is better than Paradise Lost or something — well , it might be more acceptable to some people for various reasons , but I say some writing is more rewarding , ultimately some things are better than other things . |
| 16 | In this case the immediate position defended ( contra the work of Wyld and Zachrisson ) is that orthoepic evidence is better than other evidence , such as ‘ occasional spellings ’ ( Wyld , 1936 ) , but the underlying assumption ( which is more relevant here ) is that it is possible to write a continuous unilinear history of ‘ standard ’ English pronunciation . |
| 17 | Oh aha , within the sections is there , is there some sections you think that feel they 're better than other sections because they 've got like maybe more pay or they feel they 've special ? |
| 18 | He said : ‘ In a dismal year the leasing performance was significantly better than other forms of finance and this indicates that leasing remains the most attractive form of medium-term finance for equipment . ’ |
| 19 | We are better than other countries in some things and they are better than us in others . |
| 20 | I mean the they 're a lot better than other shoes . |
| 21 | There is an idea which creeps in , particularly among younger musicians , that after a few hit records they are somehow better than other people . |
| 22 | Its driving force is to feel better than other people , to be separate from others , to feel ‘ special ’ . |
| 23 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 24 | Against this learned account , I have to weigh what it felt like at the time , and the message of the history that was delivered up to me in small doses : that not being hungry and having a bed to sleep in at night , we had a good childhood , were better than other people , were lucky little girls . |
| 25 | ‘ You wanted your hosses to look better than other people 's . |
| 26 | Even her lifelong friend , Henry Crabb Robinson [ q.v. ] , thought she carried ‘ radicalism to a romantic excess ’ and had ‘ bigoted opinions about female education ’ , but Julia Smith said of her : ‘ Her failures are better than other people 's successes . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand , two large specimens of Pinus halepensis , the Aleppo pine , had escaped because , he imagined , they had been transplanted the previous year making no shoots that summer , thus faring better than other plants with tender new growth . |
| 28 | However , the survey also established that there were some contradictions : the favourable attitudes to wind turbines were not based on firsthand experience of windmills , and to a certain extent their positive response was based on the belief that wind power would be much cheaper than other sources ( since the fuel is free ! ) , a belief which in fact might not be the case at the current stage of development . |
| 29 | Gerald Wildish , the unit general manager of the Victoria Hospital said after chatting to the teenager in her hospital bed today : ‘ She thought Blackpool would be probably somewhat livelier and possibly safer and cheaper than other resorts . |
| 30 | A spokesman for EPA says industry supports the chemical because it is cheaper than other methods such as shooting , trapping and electric fencing . |