Example sentences of "a [adj] but [adv] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also have a slim but slightly better chance of winning a vote for a referendum . |
| 2 | There are one or two cathedrals on a similar but slightly larger , more ambitious scale ; Västerås and Strängnäs , both on Lake Mälar , are two of these . |
| 3 | Needing 361 to avoid the follow-on , England find themselves in a similar but even tougher position than in the first Test at Calcutta where they lost by eight wickets . |
| 4 | A thousand years ago , humans used a similar but much cruder system which relied on the strongest part of the pattern , a band of polarised light arcing the sky . |
| 5 | Dr Dan Wright , research officer , says : ‘ Our findings contrast very much with a similar but much smaller study in the US which showed that almost 100 per cent of the study remembered exactly what they were doing when Kennedy was killed . ’ |
| 6 | A similar but apparently stronger effect is seen in children hospitalised with measles , with a reduction of 66% , although this was not significantly different from the 30% seen in developing country community settings . |