Example sentences of "we had a [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents , like thousands of other black people , had scrimped and scraped and saved for years to ensure that we had a better life . |
| 2 | The next dawn we had a better look . |
| 3 | At the beginning of this season Wilko said we had a better side this year than when we won the championship . |
| 4 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled . |
| 5 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 6 | ‘ In Southampton we had a higher incidence of bad debts because of the size of our clients . |
| 7 | If we had a larger sample , it would be easier to venture a firm opinion . ’ |
| 8 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |