Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] than [art] rest of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 2 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 3 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 4 | He 's really nice — much older than the rest of us . |
| 5 | The last part is definitely much weaker than the rest of the book . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although economically underdeveloped by modern standards , they were more advanced than the rest of the new kingdom ( except Vojvodina ) , and especially in comparison with mountainous Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina , and with southern Serbia , including Kosovo and Macedonia . |
| 8 | And then we searched out the petits coins , a place described as ‘ more asleep than the rest of the village ’ . |
| 9 | The tongue was impossibly extended , pointed and wet and more alive than the rest of the thing . |
| 10 | Then he said : ‘ I 'm more interested than the rest of you to know whether he killed himself . |
| 11 | ‘ What job is it you have here that makes you so much more likely than the rest of your family to attain a Mercedes ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | These priests may have been more affluent than the rest of the population , but one has evidence of flesh-eating in the artisan class too . |
| 14 | This was the spare room , the room that had once been a garage , and it was noticeably colder than the rest of the house . |
| 15 | Like , are they more sussed than the rest of us ? |
| 16 | Nationalized industries tend to be much more capital-intensive than the rest of the economy , and it is precisely the presence of these large capital costs that generates the economies of scale that make many of these industries natural monopolies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Why would they target you for this surveillance unless they thought you were more susceptible than the rest of us ? |
| 19 | He was n't more cowardly than the rest of his sex . |
| 20 | Although these children were potentially a lot more intelligent than the rest of society , they still feared something and this is what suppressed them for a longer period of time . |
| 21 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 24 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |
| 25 | The old are more frequently ill than the rest of the population and more frequently suffer from physical disabilities such as partial loss of hearing or arthritic joints . |
| 26 | We need clean rivers even more than the rest of the population of our planet ! |
| 27 | The salinity minimum in the Irminger Basin lies between and , indicating its recent origin , and is markedly fresher than the rest of the section . |
| 28 | ( 1977 ) found that those women who had been separated from either or both of their own parents in the context of a disrupted early family life interacted with their babies considerably less than the rest of the mothers . |