Example sentences of "than the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is true , as I hope it is , it may well be that the long-term trend of unemployment , which has seen troughs and peaks rising over the past 30 or 40 years with every trough and every peak getting higher , will turn round so that the peak of unemployment will be considerably lower than the last peak of unemployment . |
| 2 | And in in the circumstances I 'm talking about where I would work on the side , then it 's always gon na be erm turning to the quickest resort , rather than the last resort you know . |
| 3 | It was hotter than the last couple of days and there was a totally different bounce . ’ |
| 4 | People are excluded from seeing death by the fact that death has become more like an illness that must receive medical attention , rather than the last event in a person 's life that they should be left in peace to deal with in whichever way they choose . |
| 5 | Obviously its date of composition must be later than the last event mentioned — in the case of Exodus , the erection of the tabernacle . |
| 6 | Conversely , the great revolution seemed less a first instalment of an even greater change than the last instalment of a past era : at best a splendid highly coloured memory , at worst a proof that there were no dramatic shortcuts to progress . |
| 7 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 8 | This time they were a sickly blue-yellow and bigger than the last invasion , when they were red |
| 9 | If your statute is later than the last Continuation Volume it will probably be in the Current Statutes Service , composing loose-leaf binders containing the latest statutes , annotations and index . |
| 10 | Actually , she looked better than the last time Anne had seen her alive . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a quality street team to welcome the Aussies , ’ said Probyn , ‘ and I intend to go one better than the last time I faced them — the World Cup final 12 months ago . ’ |
| 12 | The net effect is that , each time , the perihelion is a little further round than the last time — or , to put it another way , the perihelion advances . |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't look a day older than the last time I worked with you . ’ |
| 14 | He smiled wider than the last time . |
| 15 | Magwitch seemed quieter and more likeable than the last time I had seen him . |
| 16 | His gravelly Scots voice pleased her more than the last time she met him . |
| 17 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |
| 18 | He looked even paler and weaker than the last time I had seen him . |
| 19 | I 'm a lot better than the last time you saw me . |
| 20 | He looked anxious , more white-faced and sober than the last time Athelstan had seen him . |
| 21 | but Lucy that 's four less than the last time so that , have , have you got them all written down your corrections ? |
| 22 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 23 | If Gloucester need heart ; inspiration they need look no further than the last round , when they ran in 3 tries against London Scottish to win 20-7 . |
| 24 | Presented in this way , it is almost inconceivable to anyone understanding the function of such committees that it would pursue any other than the last alternative . |
| 25 | After much fretting and threats of legal action , the RFU had little choice but to back down — and endorse a strip that is if anything , more garish than the last effort . |
| 26 | They 're better than the last week 's , yes we had trouble with them . |
| 27 | Let us hope that the choice of Manchester for the next Davis Cup tie will provide more interest than the last match against France . |
| 28 | They were all codes meaning : ‘ Yes , I 'll go higher than the last bidder . ’ |
| 29 | FGTL The First version specified is greater than the Last version . |
| 30 | For a valid range of module issues the first version must be less than the last version . |