Example sentences of "[art] higher [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 2 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 3 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 4 | I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache . |
| 5 | One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal . |
| 6 | Success rates are no higher when the test item is placed in context , the chief effect of a context being to increase the rate for the " decimal point ignored " error . |