Example sentences of "[adj -er] and [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duller than neighbouring colours and lacking in shading , the red coat was shown by X-ray analysis to cover a slightly shorter and far more finely draped garment in the same green as the man 's sleeves . |
| 2 | The chamois , another mountain specialist , is much lighter and consequently much more agile than the mountain goat . |
| 3 | Birds from N Africa and the Middle East , erlangeri and tanypterus , are paler and much less heavily marked with streaks on crown , bars above and spots below . |
| 4 | Fossilized orang-utan teeth — most of what zoologists know of ape evolution comes from the study of fossil teeth — reveal that half a million years ago the orang 's ancestors were far bigger and probably twice as heavy as the modern animal . |
| 5 | People for whom career goals are less important than comfort goals ( lower achievers in an organizational sense ) are more likely to watch others play sport ; their first sexual experiences occur younger and more frequently thereafter . |
| 6 | Larger and rather more uniformly dark than Little Swift , and with a markedly narrower white rump and distinctly forked tail . |
| 7 | It results in intense competition between the males , and this may be one reason why the males of lekking birds are larger and much more brilliantly coloured than the females . |
| 8 | The amount of the layer destroyed was 4.3 times larger in 1991 than in 1981 , and the total area affected was 13 times larger and twice as deep . |
| 9 | Her expression was wistful , reminiscent , as she recalled how , once they had gone up endless stairs and were seated on the hard wooden benches , an attendant had come along and pushed them all closer and closer together so that as many spectators as possible could be packed in . |
| 10 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 11 | Critics complained of the ‘ drab uniformity ’ of such seemingly endless streets , which frequently concealed behind them a network of older and certainly less well ordered thoroughfares . |
| 12 | These were foolish and unnecessary questions anyhow , because I was sure such a divinity would never have anything to do with someone so much older and so much less good-looking than himself . |
| 13 | Er I 'm also concerned that the services in er even a village that size would be erm overwhelmed by the demands of erm large scale development , but that 's the largest , there are a range of other settlements which are mostly much smaller and even much less able to accommodate , or act as a nucleus for large scale development . |
| 14 | Much the same could be said of Atlas of Ore Minerals except that the impact is reduced by the smaller and very slightly less well reproduced pictures ( of polished sections here ) . |
| 15 | It 's taken us both a very long time but I feel stronger and emotionally much more stable now . |
| 16 | By encouraging an individual to explore their ideas , correct , redefine and re-explore until a workable solution is arrived at , may take slightly longer than simply being instructed in that certain manner by an appropriate ‘ expert ’ yet the learning experience is infinitely greater and consequently more long lasting . |
| 17 | Although in both books Hilton never loses sight of the spirituality possible for actives each book is addressed to a different audience : Scale 1 to an enclosed and apparently illiterate anchoress " redyng of holy writt may < wel vse " ( 15.288a. – 88 ) ; while Scale 2 seems more generally addressed to a wider and not necessarily wholly contemplative audience . |