Example sentences of "[adj -er] even [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Bigger even than the Bank of America . |
2 | At the long wavelengths he observed , the Galactic Centre turned out to be the brightest object in the sky , brighter even than the Sun . |
3 | It is one of the world 's fastest growing industries and if it maintains its present rate of growth it will be the world 's biggest industry by the year 2000 — larger even than the oil industry . |
4 | Hearing the noise of a car 's engine , she looked up to see approaching headlights , and a feeling of dread , colder even than the snow , settled over her like a heavy cloak . |
5 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
6 | The spermatozoon is much smaller even than the ovum and , although it is a single cell it consists of a " head " and long tail , which propels the sperm by quivering . |
7 | He was salvaged from this desperate scrape by his chauffeur-valet , Livsey , thus proving that truth is stranger even than the fiction of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves . |
8 | increase in the number of patients treated compared with last year , which is higher even than the Government 's forecast increase in patient care . |
9 | Between 1986 and 1990 , the CFA zone performed worse even than the rest of Africa . |
10 | That was the sound he found to be the worst , worse even than the cursing and swearing and threats he had witnessed last Friday night . |
11 | In other words , either the present situation can be used as an opportunity to reform the system into something more rational and humane , or else it will deteriorate into something much worse even than the present . |
12 | Somebody had planted a few saplings as if to justify the name , but they looked extremely sorry themselves , sadder even than the Fir Tree in Hans Christian Andersen 's story and about to meet a similar fate . |
13 | In Wales the club-v-country argument has gone on for longer even than the locust years — a constant , nagging reminder of the manifold and manifest divisions that have wrought such damage on Welsh rugby . |
14 | From being one prince among many others he became the most powerful ruler in Europe , richer even than the Emperor , and completely overshadowing his own nominal overlord , the King of France . |
15 | The range of things that can be addictive , though , is wider even than the range of available drugs . |
16 | The issue has an application wider even than the application that the hon. Gentleman describes . |
17 | The full moid was the most important clan gathering ; greater even than the installation of a chief . |
18 | Yet it seemed more terrible , a horror greater than the Abigails ' marriage or the treatment of the Dasses by their son , greater even than the death of Stephen 's mother because Stephen 's mother had sought peace and at least had found it . |
19 | The number of black holes may well be greater even than the number of visible stars , which totals about a hundred thousand million in our galaxy alone . |