Example sentences of "or [adv] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.

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1 In many of the Longhorns , however , the horns spread outwards and upwards instead and some have one horn growing in that fashion while the other curves down or one or both forwards rather than upwards or downwards .
2 Such a wage would have been comparable to or even slightly better than that paid to other craftsmen in the area .
3 And although they tended to come from less advantaged backgrounds , only children performed as well as , or even slightly better than , fellow pupils from two-child families .
4 Or maybe even further than that : to those warm sunny days when she sat watching her Daddy and asking him questions and he told her like he always did - ‘ Go and play , there 's a good girl . ’
5 I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases .
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