Example sentences of "[was/were] shorter than [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sister Helen , now fourteen , was attending the local grammar school , and during her holidays ( which were shorter than mine ) she was still in contact with her friends , both girls and boys . |
| 2 | Though he was shorter than Jezrael , he had a tendency to put back his bullet head and sneer down his nose at her . |
| 3 | Sarah was shorter than Catriona , and she had straight reddish hair , not the wild and curly type . |
| 4 | She was shorter than Jimmy by a foot ; perhaps five foot three , and her long dark hair was cut to fall around her face in an old-fashioned sixties manner . |
| 5 | She was shorter than Suzanne , with dark hair and eyes , a sultry , sulky mouth . |
| 6 | We say , for example , ‘ Looking at the Müller-Lyer figure , I would have said that AB was shorter than BC had I not known it to be an illusion ’ . |