Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] but [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to its dire foreign exchange shortage — Zambia broke off relations with the IMF earlier this year — book-dealers can no longer afford to import less popular but better quality reading material . |
| 2 | See if you can get a similar report significantly quicker elsewhere and then make a decision as to whether a less powerful but quicker report will do . |
| 3 | ‘ Second night preview more staid but better show . |
| 4 | The top seed won 15-11 , 15-11 , 15-7 with a display of sustained violence that has been less characteristic of the heavier , more creative but slower Jahangir than the earlier version . |
| 5 | We look now at the method adopted in Belfast ( parallel to Labov 's telephone survey ) of complementing , by means of a rather wider but shallower study , the detailed information collected in the five communities . |