Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His economic plan was made to be tougher on the deficit in the House of Representatives , and may be made tougher still in the Senate . |
| 2 | I 've seen pensioners waiting outside in the rain and it 's even worse for those further ahead in the line inside who are being subjected to those dreadful video adverts while they wait . |
| 3 | The shots are flying straighter both in the sense of having less fade and of greater accuracy . |
| 4 | Imrie & Wyburn ( 1958 ) consider the notch difference to be ‘ inborn ’ , and Thomson ( 1899 ) noted that it is larger even in the female foetus . |
| 5 | It is a lot cheaper especially in the |
| 6 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 7 | It 's better really in the in the summer when you can come after school |
| 8 | Rainfall is at its lowest in the east , where summers tend to be better then in the temperate western half of the UK . |
| 9 | He rubbed his thumb and forefinger together in the ubiquitous Greek gesture for money , for money and corruption . |
| 10 | Good and then you went fe , worse again in the afternoon did n't you ? |
| 11 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 12 | By the end of the century the link between state service and landed wealth had become markedly weaker : even among the highest ranks of the Civil Service , over 70 per cent of the personnel were landless , and the proportion was greater still in the officer corps . |
| 13 | It is well known in linguistics , for example , that languages vary in the way they encode perceptual phenomena such as colour ; and this variation is probably greater still in the conceptualization of abstract and cultural phenomena . |
| 14 | ‘ If the weather is cooler later in the week , perhaps , we can do one or the other . |
| 15 | The median survival in the cimetidine treated group was significantly greater then in the placebo group ( 450 days compared with 316 days ) . |
| 16 | Those paths lead ever wider and wider afield in the cause of Christ . |