Example sentences of "people had [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We knew that some people had more money than others , and some people had bigger houses than others , but consideration of status was something unknown to us . |
| 2 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 3 | I 'm fed up too but I suppose we should n't grumble , ’ Sarah said and Anne agreed that other people had worse troubles . |
| 4 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 5 | The study involved the writing down of English glosses for the signs , and the fact that deaf people had poorer recall overall may result from this cross-modal task . |