Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] than [art] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |
| 2 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 3 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 4 | Something much larger than a man . |
| 5 | Because of this prolonged infectious period , the woman 's contribution to the infected population is potentially much greater than the man 's . |
| 6 | Like their big relatives the Orcs , Goblins vary in size although they are typically smaller than Orcs and usually smaller than a man . |
| 7 | Half of the body moves along the ground on many little legs — the front half rears up taller than a man , with many little arms . |
| 8 | The " sexual peak " of womanhood is slightly later than the man 's — around the age of 30 . |
| 9 | Paddington was beginning to loom slightly larger than a man 's hand on the horizon ; Paddington was where the murdered Kemp had stood and phoned The Randolph the previous day . |
| 10 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 11 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet during a debate on emergency price curbs , Mr Ryzhkov was far blunter than a man accustomed to the velvety circumlocutions and understatements , second nature to Western central bankers . |
| 12 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 13 | Thankfully we 've been spared the agony of SRV 's favourite .013 to .058 strings ; the reissue comes with a much more manageable .010 to .046 set , and it 's been set up with an action considerably lower than the man 's own and at the 12th fret . |