Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj -er] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first concerns the metallicity of the gas , the abundance of elements heavier than lithium . |
| 2 | A couple of years older than dad , she had lived in London for three decades , on and off . |
| 3 | We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year . |
| 4 | The concept of a constitution is closely bound up with the notion of the limitation of government by law , a source of authority higher than government and beyond its reach . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 6 | Those who see that one section of the report is concerned with fates worse than death may be disappointed . |
| 7 | low crowned P3 with length greater than height , cusp heteromorphy on upper premolars reduced , reduction in breadth of upper molars ( breadth/length 115–121% ) , and I nearly as broad as high ( breadth/length index 80–90% ) ; |
| 8 | Under certain assumptions , such pricing behaviour could be derived from the behaviour of a single profit-maximizing monopolist facing a constant elasticity demand curve , with elasticity greater than unity . |
| 9 | He guided them through a broad passageway flanked with heavy half-columns surmounted with lotus blooms , and protected by the couched forms of rams , Amun 's beast , in sculptures larger than life . |
| 10 | ‘ I guess , ’ he said , viewing something in memory unhappier than success . |
| 11 | In many western capitals , notably Washington , the feeling is in fact stronger than indifference . |
| 12 | Even one year after their diagnosis as dementia sufferers , the public service costs of community care were between £100 and £180 per week cheaper than care in residential accommodation or a long-stay ward . |