Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was ‘ quicker than a shake of a lamb 's tail ’ . |
| 2 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 3 | After the sober belches of the shoe-gazing clique ( itself a knee-jerk reaction to the brash swagger of baggydom ) , The Franks came across like circus clowns pissing around in a casualty department , all charmingly naive , astoundingly cheerful and dafter than a boardroom of brushes . |
| 4 | For me , this job is easier than a game of croquet … |
| 5 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 6 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 7 | I can see them appealing to players who want to change from a rack unit crammed with sounds that are hardly ( if ever ) used , back to something which is as simple as , or even simpler than a row of pedals . |
| 8 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 9 | When workers which have been out foraging return with crops full of honeydew and nectar , they feed it to a replete , which swells until its abdomen , once no bigger than a grain of sand , has swollen to the size of a large pea . |
| 10 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 11 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 12 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 13 | Suddenly the skip , even though it was empty , felt heavier than a cartload of corpses being heaved off a battlefield . |
| 14 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 15 | Well , it had n't changed much , except that it was bigger and a lot of schoolboys were apparently prancing round the sacred portals of Pierremont House . |
| 16 | What he has to come out with is not initially clear , but it becomes clearer when a taste of gay night-life turns him off , and he trails back to his dull wife . |
| 17 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 18 | About ⅛″ is a suitable size for a close-mesh net , not larger than a quarter of an inch in the case of a home-made , drilled plate where the holes can be spaced more widely apart . |
| 19 | Each window was no larger than a sheet of tabloid newspaper and there was clearly no upstairs to the place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 22 | I am older because I have learnt , I am younger because a lot of me consisted of things older people had taught me . |
| 23 | And he was cleverer than a bag of monkeys , as his mother used to say , and would outwit them all . |
| 24 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 25 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 26 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 27 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 28 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 29 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 30 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |