Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] than that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seemed more than that from where I was sitting . ’ |
| 2 | In some ways it seemed longer than that to Lewis and in others only yesterday . |
| 3 | Cats did not rate quite as high on her scale of things worth fighting for as , say , dolphins , but their stock certainly stood higher than that of the middle-aged , white , heterosexual male . |
| 4 | Prussia had established , at least for the time being , her position as one of the great European powers ; and the personal prestige of her ruler stood higher than that of any other European monarch . |
| 5 | The eugenists also argued , on the assumption that the working classes were made up of less intelligent and less healthy stock , that if their birth rate remained higher than that of the middle and professional classes then the physical and intellectual standards of the British population must decline . |