Example sentences of "than the rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 2 | His romantic idea that gangsters closer to reality than the rest of us . |
| 3 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 4 | The study concluded that Los Angeles had the slowest pace of all , and the West was generally slower-paced than the rest of the country . |
| 5 | Usually , one or two of the band are more chatty , outgoing or just plain pretentious than the rest . |
| 6 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 7 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 8 | At this point they would go to bed slightly earlier than the rest of us ( because they were tired ) , and start the delaying process all over again . |
| 9 | Also it might be that those who suffer from SAD differ from most people only because they are more susceptible than the rest of the population to feeling ‘ under the weather ’ when they do not see daylight , particularly in the morning . |
| 10 | Britain has more professional boxers than the rest of Europe put together . |
| 11 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 12 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 13 | Britain 's tax burden could be 15% lower as a share of GDP than the rest of the EC 's . |
| 14 | Soldered joints are often difficult to spot visually , but radiography is helpful for detecting them if the solder is denser than the rest of the object or if there is a cavity at the joint . |
| 15 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 16 | One of the best-known original London rap crews finally puts out an LP that is harder than the rest . |
| 17 | He was smaller than the rest , but strong ? ’ |
| 18 | Blank and rugged it stared back at him , no more informative than the rest . |
| 19 | First and foremost everyone present at an event must be able to see and hear , and the press must be able to see and hear slightly better than the rest without getting in the way of the guests . |
| 20 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 21 | Everybody else groaned , Jackie louder than the rest . |
| 22 | Here they yield 20 p.c. more than the rest of the market , on forecasts to March 1993 . |
| 23 | What is the point of all that careful breeding with suitable people , all that specialised education and upbringing , if not to produce people who are somehow nobler and more self-sacrificing than the rest of us ? |
| 24 | Rather unexpectedly , the Western Isles are somewhat less sparsely populated than the rest of the Highlands and Islands , having almost 10% of their population as against about 8% of the area . |
| 25 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 26 | Britain has proportionately the largest prison population of any Community country — and we also have more prisoners serving life sentences than the rest of the EC combined . |
| 27 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 28 | One that was more attractively worded than the rest caught her eye . |
| 29 | When the British were attacked for their role in the Boer War , Hyndman and Quelch for the British Social Democratic Federation prepared a dossier on the crimes of other imperial powers as the basis for condemning all — and so exonerating the British as no worse than the rest . |
| 30 | A ‘ short circuit ’ route for the water developed which cooled more rapidly than the rest of the reservoir , reducing its effectiveness . |