Example sentences of "[adj -er] [adv] than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 2 | This shape would work in either a rectangular frame , as in this case , or a square diamond would fit into a square mount , although it would have to be shorter rather than the elongated shape I have used here . |
| 3 | He was a good deal younger than Mary Adelaide Flock , and probably a lot younger still than the late Ted Mosse , but a limp suggested rheumatism and the reason he was known to the chemist . |
| 4 | The great grey is one of the largest of the forest owls of Scandinavia , larger even than the snowy owl of the Arctic tundra , and one species we had little hope of finding unaided . |
| 5 | This was a much larger cut than the government had planned , larger indeed than the announced cuts that had caused so much controversy in 1976 . |
| 6 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 7 | It 's worse than anyone could imagine , worse even than the local people realize . |
| 8 | Juniors 11–14 Seniors 14–16 the Junior Section being stronger numerically than the Senior Section but several juniors will be moved up to the seniors after the Easter Break . |
| 9 | Juniors 11–14 Seniors 14–16 the Junior Section being stronger numerically than the Senior Section but several juniors will be moved up to the seniors after the Easter Break . |
| 10 | They had a special relationship , stronger even than the normal father-daughter relationship . |
| 11 | She remembered that July day , the kitchen door open to the patio , the scent of herbs and sea stronger even than the spicy , buttery smell of newly baked biscuits . |
| 12 | We suggest that there is still widespread under reporting of alcoholic liver disease , with the greater rather than the lesser proportion of chronic liver disease deaths being alcohol related . |