Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj -er] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 2 | We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid . |
| 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 | The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there . |
| 5 | Carrington was carrying what appeared to be a portable radio : Grant had a black metallic box slightly larger than a sheet of foolscap paper and less than three inches thick . |
| 6 | Now , it was chiselled into remote lines , his eyes a shade slightly cooler than a glacier . |
| 7 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |