Example sentences of "than [prep] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'm certainly a lot happier than after my first match at Liverpool ! |
| 2 | I noticed that Lizzie was more ‘ laid back ’ with her than with her first daughter , lending her out on many occasions to Kim and Annie , females who , as yet , have n't become mothers themselves . |
| 3 | And with me , perhaps , she was even more cautious than with her sixth form girls who had mothers to put the other side of the argument . |
| 4 | ‘ … and moreover the most gallant gentleman of the realm , and this went on until it resulted in a divorce , and after a second marriage , which was likewise unhappy , she entered the married estate for the third time with a common tar , with whom , though he abused her daily , she herself said that she lived in much greater content than in her first marriage . |
| 5 | At least one can make more sense of this than in our first two cases . |
| 6 | Mid-season found him second in the national averages , and following match figures of 7 for 61 against Warwickshire , team-mate John Morris wondered whether Bishop could ever have bowled with more controlled hostility than in his first spell in the first innings . |
| 7 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 8 | This is in part due to practice ; but there is also an influence of maturation , for if a chick is prevented from pecking at food during its second day , it will still be better at pecking on its third than on its first day ( Figure 3.5 ) but it will not be as accurate as it would have been if it had been allowed to practise . |
| 9 | Terry was still feeling the sadness of leaving his mother and was more subdued than on their last leavetaking . |