Example sentences of "were [adj] than [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royalties paid to Iran were lower than the taxes Anglo-Iranian paid to the British government , and the company kept most skilled jobs for British expatriates . |
| 2 | They were of three different heights so in conversation with Julian I asked if they were all the same height or if some were taller than the others . |
| 3 | The boys , who were bigger than the Brownies , ran full-tilt into them . |
| 4 | and finding out what , what our er stomachs were like , whether the , the liquid in there is acidic , whether it 's an acid and do you know the girls were braver than the boys , the boys would n't let anyone do that to them . |
| 5 | The patients with active disease and the patients with disease in remission were younger than the controls . |
| 6 | Pamela considered herself ‘ Solo ’ , playing her own keyboards and singing cover versions of songs that , to Jimmy , were better than the originals . |
| 7 | They were better than the originals . |
| 8 | But at length he began to speak of our improvisations , and how the nights here were better than the days . |
| 9 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 10 | He moved away , ostensibly to examine a corner of the abbey , but she saw his eyes were colder than the stones of which it was built . |
| 11 | The patients in this study were older than the controls but that is unlikely to have had a significant effect on our results . |
| 12 | In most recorded ‘ adoptions ’ , the new fry were smaller than the parents ' own offspring . |
| 13 | Their eyes were smaller than the males ' , sunk deep below forehead ridges of vine . |
| 14 | The agreement was for consultancy which records show were less than the sums of money involved . |
| 15 | The dogs were faster than the ponies — they ran quickly over the top of the snow , but the ponies ' feet went through it . |
| 16 | They were never larger than was necessary for them to be seen from the next point along the line but were higher than the tops of any forest trees in the vicinity . |
| 17 | In general these cash limits were tighter than the losses industries had previously been making . |