Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adv] than the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 2 | This shape would work in either a rectangular frame , as in this case , or a square diamond would fit into a square mount , although it would have to be shorter rather than the elongated shape I have used here . |
| 3 | But this face was bigger ; swollen and bigger still than the horror in the car . |
| 4 | ‘ Bigger even than the Bank of America . |
| 5 | He was a good deal younger than Mary Adelaide Flock , and probably a lot younger still than the late Ted Mosse , but a limp suggested rheumatism and the reason he was known to the chemist . |
| 6 | At the long wavelengths he observed , the Galactic Centre turned out to be the brightest object in the sky , brighter even than the Sun . |
| 7 | It is one of the world 's fastest growing industries and if it maintains its present rate of growth it will be the world 's biggest industry by the year 2000 — larger even than the oil industry . |
| 8 | The great grey is one of the largest of the forest owls of Scandinavia , larger even than the snowy owl of the Arctic tundra , and one species we had little hope of finding unaided . |
| 9 | This was a much larger cut than the government had planned , larger indeed than the announced cuts that had caused so much controversy in 1976 . |
| 10 | Hearing the noise of a car 's engine , she looked up to see approaching headlights , and a feeling of dread , colder even than the snow , settled over her like a heavy cloak . |
| 11 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 12 | Disguising his real feelings he wrote cheerfully , telling them that it was better here than The Hague , as if to say that nothing could be worse than the hell of being unloved . |
| 13 | Equally , breeders are passing over animals which they now feel are no better genetically than the dairy replacements they have at home . |
| 14 | Avgas works out at abut twenty per cent cheaper there than the UK , but at around 34 litres per hour for a C172 or a AA5 , that accounts for only some £4 of the differential . |
| 15 | Well it it 's not that much dearer now than the |
| 16 | Yet I have lived many thousands of years , and am no older now than the day my lord left me . |
| 17 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 18 | Powys is the extreme example : with an area comparable to the larger English counties , it has a population smaller even than the Isle of Wight ( Table 3.3 ) . |
| 19 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |
| 20 | On the most miniature scale of all , smaller even than the demes , were the Attic komai or villages ; even these had their komarchs , though about these officials virtually nothing is known . |
| 21 | The Lib Dems are far weaker politically than the party he seeks to replace . |
| 22 | He was salvaged from this desperate scrape by his chauffeur-valet , Livsey , thus proving that truth is stranger even than the fiction of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves . |
| 23 | As Greenwood ( 1982 , p. 259 ) noted , ‘ The Conservative Government 's attempts to extract deeper cuts from higher rather than the lower spending authorities represent a movement away ’ from the former ‘ philosophy ’ . |
| 24 | In ritual status they were at the very top of the system and ranked higher even than the kings . |
| 25 | increase in the number of patients treated compared with last year , which is higher even than the Government 's forecast increase in patient care . |
| 26 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
| 27 | It 's worse than anyone could imagine , worse even than the local people realize . |
| 28 | Between 1986 and 1990 , the CFA zone performed worse even than the rest of Africa . |
| 29 | In other words , either the present situation can be used as an opportunity to reform the system into something more rational and humane , or else it will deteriorate into something much worse even than the present . |
| 30 | Worse even than the ladies in the white salon . |