Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [noun sg] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the order of words the poet even hints that Thessaly is more fortunate than her sister Sparta . |
| 2 | I 'm fifteen , six years younger than my brother Chuck , you know . |
| 3 | More than my cousin Ben and your Gary . |
| 4 | I was so pleased to note that someone more knowledgeable than your reviewer Robert Nye about the Rev William Gaskell had written to you ( the Rev Andrew M Hill , Points of View , 13 March ) . |
| 5 | Thereafter Louis the German was the senior member of the family : some seventeen years older than his half-brother Charles , he lived to the ripe age of seventy . |
| 6 | He accused her of blaming him for his failure to return with Oreste when , if anyone was to blame other than her sister Ellen , it was she herself . |
| 7 | The military itself was subject to serious unrest in January 1991 following new appointments by Gen. Luis Alonso Discua , the new C.-in-C. of the armed forces , who was known to be more moderate than his predecessor Gen. Arnulfo Cantarero López , who resigned in December 1990 . |
| 8 | If a little less politically active than his colleague Deane , he too continued to act under the military junta of October–December ; and not surprisingly the restored Long Parliament replaced both of them as war treasurers early in 1660 . |