Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj -er] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was little better than murder , ’ Celia said fiercely . |
| 2 | What I did get away with was arguably worse than murder , and revealed for the first time something of what I was letting myself in for by getting involved with Karen Parsons . |
| 3 | They had n't met but her intelligence service was obviously sharper than Coffin 's own . |
| 4 | Water from Lambeth was much safer than water from Southwark further downstream . |
| 5 | Of course , it was much better than Danu as postings go . |
| 6 | She wanted to sit here , and stare at this view , which was much better than hospital . |
| 7 | Still — the cushions underneath him were definitely softer than wood , the wine in the wooden cup beside him was much tastier than sap , and there could be absolutely no comparison between a squirrel and the girl sitting before him , clasping her knees and watching him thoughtfully , unless mention was made of certain hints of furriness . |
| 8 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 9 | East of the Rhine in the kingdom of Louis the German , for instance , there were no mints , and there is much less evidence for markets and traders , while in the Middle Kingdom ( Lotharingia ) , the volume of coinage in circulation was much smaller than west of the Meuse . |
| 10 | Staff were often considered quite remote — even in Department B , which was much smaller than Department A : |
| 11 | The recession was much deeper than forecast , so that social security payments expanded as unemployment rose to over three million . |
| 12 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
| 13 | This was probably cheaper than setting or marking exams locally or than employing an individual solely for the purpose . |
| 14 | Regions in which the density was slightly higher than average would have had their expansion slowed down by the gravitational attraction of the extra mass . |
| 15 | The Budget and Scientific Policy Minister , Hugo Schiltz , announced on Jan. 3 , 1990 , that the 1989 budget deficit had turned out to be BF397,000 million , which was substantially lower than forecast [ see p. 36775 ] . |
| 16 | The aftermath was even worse than Yen-Bay ; 2,000 dead and the virtual destruction or disintegration of the existing party apparatus . |
| 17 | and there be twenty eight shillings a week , that 's all I allowed him and because that was even better than labour money and so the day , they , I had to keep that they stopped all me labour , so cos I had the money you see . |
| 18 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 19 | In contrast to his fiction , Asimov took nine months to write his autobiography , which was considerably longer than War and Peace . |