Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if they have toddlers then a Farley 's Rusk is so much healthier than a biscuit . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Working with Tracey is much easier than a group because you would have to stand around in the group and not get a chance of doing things . |
| 3 | Flight appreciably heavier than a gull but less so than a buzzard , and remarkably agile when chasing other birds ; will pursue even Gannets . |
| 4 | It was covered with birch trees , thousands of them , small and frail , none of them much taller than a man . |
| 5 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 6 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 7 | He could also see the driver of the sledge-a huge figure , much bigger than a man . |
| 8 | ‘ He was huge , much bigger than a man . |
| 9 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 10 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 11 | Intel 80486DX 33MHz , 200Mb hard disk , and 4Mb of RAM in a package not much bigger than an 750g corn flake packet . |
| 12 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 13 | Something much larger than a man . |
| 14 | Although water is far less compressible than air , the aquifer holds a lot of water compressed in this way because it is much larger than a tyre . |
| 15 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 16 | It 's not really much larger than a Piper Malibu , but it has that long pointed nose extending forever forward from a rakish windscreen , ending in the quadruple petals of that mean-looking prop , and that makes a difference . |
| 17 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 18 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |
| 19 | The Accommodation Office can usually fix you up with somewhere to stay ( especially if you visit during the University summer vacation ) and it will be much cheaper than a hotel ! |
| 20 | ‘ Much cheaper than a hotel , for all of us . ’ |
| 21 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 22 | In simpler situations the system of mirrors still works well , and is , of course , much cheaper than a television camera and monitor . |
| 23 | Also I did n't have much money , and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey . |
| 24 | The pay was much better than a secretary 's pay , and the work was more interesting . |
| 25 | If the council receives a large number of letters about a development , this will give it an idea of the strength of feeling involved and it is much better than a petition . |
| 26 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman . |
| 28 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 29 | Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family . |
| 30 | He noticed how strained she was looking , much older than a week before . |