Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] rest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 2 | ‘ She 's tougher than the rest of us put together . |
| 3 | In pentagonally shaped plates there is often a distal tongue or lobe slightly lower than the rest of the plate . |
| 4 | This growth owes more to the birth-rate than to evangelism : Muslims are younger than the rest of the population ( half the South Asians are under 16 ) and usually have large families . |
| 5 | ( Of course , Natalie was n't silly ; she was , in fact , a year younger than the rest of the first-year students , having kept a year ahead at school . ) |
| 6 | The 10 patients who were lost to follow-up were younger than the rest of the cohort ( mean age : 48 yr vs 60 yr , p=0.05 ) , but otherwise had similar baseline characteristics . |
| 7 | Now all I can say about that is it seems to me you 're braver than the rest of us but we try to keep out of it . |
| 8 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |
| 9 | Generally the vaults have replaced the original wooden roofs in the churches here and so are later than the rest of the building . |
| 10 | Typical is S. Botolph 's Church , Boston , in Lincolnshire , called colloquially the ‘ Boston Stump ’ because its top storey was added so much later than the rest of the church and for many years the tower had a decapitated appearance ( 476 ) . |
| 11 | At the end of the corpus spongiosum ( through which runs the urethra ) is the glans penis which is larger than the rest of this cylinder and is the most sensitive part of the penis . |
| 12 | I seemed to be a lot happier than the rest of my fellow travellers who seemed to be very sleepy . |
| 13 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 14 | In Scotland the track record is better than the rest of Britain , with Employment Service staff maintaining its target of ensuring that 3 per cent of its job placements are for disabled people , according to its Scottish director , Alan Brown . |
| 15 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 16 | This was the spare room , the room that had once been a garage , and it was noticeably colder than the rest of the house . |
| 17 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who is a keen supporter of Brighton and Hove Albion Association Football Club ( The Seagulls ) , and who frequently goes to the sports centre of the University of Sussex to watch his team at their indoor training , was surprised the other day to see two figures distinctly older than the rest of the players . |
| 18 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 19 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 20 | He 's really nice — much older than the rest of us . |
| 21 | He was older than the rest of us at Breakspear , you see , having tried for some years to make a go of a religious vocation before abandoning it in favour of teaching . |
| 22 | The last part is definitely much weaker than the rest of the book . |
| 23 | The report makes for fairly depressing reading , as it describes how the capital fares worse than the rest of the country in many areas of service . |
| 24 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 25 | The group acknowledge that Scotland has been slower than the rest of the country to produce credible dance music . |
| 26 | Soldered joints are often difficult to spot visually , but radiography is helpful for detecting them if the solder is denser than the rest of the object or if there is a cavity at the joint . |
| 27 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 28 | It could n't be the water table , because the site was higher than the rest of the garden . |
| 29 | Upthrusts of men and women forced cones of tangled , crushed bodies higher than the rest of the mass . |
| 30 | per head higher than the rest of the United Kingdom which would be jeopardised by any change in the constitutional arrangements . |