Example sentences of "[adj -er] than the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the form United have never been further than the 4th round . |
| 2 | And it was a lot easier than the first time . |
| 3 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 4 | If that is true , as I hope it is , it may well be that the long-term trend of unemployment , which has seen troughs and peaks rising over the past 30 or 40 years with every trough and every peak getting higher , will turn round so that the peak of unemployment will be considerably lower than the last peak of unemployment . |
| 5 | For many people it 's riskier than the next approach and there is no guarantee of results ; but you will certainly have made a powerful impression on others . |
| 6 | This time they were a sickly blue-yellow and bigger than the last invasion , when they were red |
| 7 | The Cepheid variable R Crucis , between Acrux and Epsilon , is an easy binocular object , though it never becomes much brighter than the seventh magnitude . |
| 8 | It may be brighter than the third magnitude by Christmas morning , but by then it will be low and difficult in the SE twilight . |
| 9 | It may be brighter than the third magnitude by Christmas morning , but by then it will be low and difficult in the SE twilight . |
| 10 | It was hotter than the last couple of days and there was a totally different bounce . ’ |
| 11 | It depends on chronicles , on the evidence of laws , and on the decrees of councils that are mainly later than the Fourth Lateran . |
| 12 | Obviously its date of composition must be later than the last event mentioned — in the case of Exodus , the erection of the tabernacle . |
| 13 | If your statute is later than the last Continuation Volume it will probably be in the Current Statutes Service , composing loose-leaf binders containing the latest statutes , annotations and index . |
| 14 | It will be at least three times larger than the first show , held last year , and will represent every area of self build , from finance to land plots , as well as house design ‘ packages ’ and most related building and interior products . |
| 15 | Virtually every year the eighth , eighth year always does get better than the ninth year . |
| 16 | ‘ We spent a lot of time recording it and it is a lot better than the first album . |
| 17 | ‘ And that means that you have to be better than the next man to be considered half as good . |
| 18 | I 'm black and I 've got to be better than the next applicant , but I do n't let it hold me back . |
| 19 | Actually , she looked better than the last time Anne had seen her alive . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a quality street team to welcome the Aussies , ’ said Probyn , ‘ and I intend to go one better than the last time I faced them — the World Cup final 12 months ago . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm a lot better than the last time you saw me . |
| 22 | They 're better than the last week 's , yes we had trouble with them . |
| 23 | The new batch of home-brew tasted better than the last lot , and stronger . |
| 24 | But the groups had historic scores to settle with each other , some of the nastiest no older than the second world war . |
| 25 | ‘ You do n't look a day older than the last time I worked with you . ’ |
| 26 | Theoretically , for example , none of the entries in E need be older than the twelfth century . |
| 27 | He looked even paler and weaker than the last time I had seen him . |
| 28 | but there 's nothing smaller than the first size |
| 29 | It was worse than the first time . |
| 30 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |