Example sentences of "than the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us hope that the choice of Manchester for the next Davis Cup tie will provide more interest than the last match against France . |
| 2 | EACH new indignity in the heap visited on Welsh rugby seems worse than the last . |
| 3 | ‘ I figured I 'd better get started before I ended up like Brahms or something , ’ he deadpans in a voice that betrays his Welsh origins ( he was born in 1942 in Garnant ) rather than the last 25 years living in New York . |
| 4 | But the interventions , each one usually more radical than the last , were more a sign of growing frustration at the centre . |
| 5 | By this time I was shaking and each new thud seemed louder and more terrifying than the last . |
| 6 | But if each generation is heavier than the last , as is the case with quarks , then the third-generation neutrino could well be heavy enough to make W=1 . |
| 7 | These affairs , she complained , were even less real than the last lot . |
| 8 | They were all codes meaning : ‘ Yes , I 'll go higher than the last bidder . ’ |
| 9 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 13 | Turnout was 81 per cent , two per cent higher than the last general election . |
| 14 | Located partly in America and partly in Rupert Thomson 's fertile imagination , the place is crawling with funeral parlours and peopled by characters each more disturbed than the last . |
| 15 | Early successes are built upon , as different audiences are superimposed , each clapping a little louder than the last , a crescendo rising . |
| 16 | Actually , she looked better than the last time Anne had seen her alive . |
| 17 | Further along the shoreline a wave crashed , followed by another , louder than the last . |
| 18 | And everyone in Maple Drive , as they cooked , consoled , took out their best suits and thought of even nicer things to say about Donald than the last nice thing that had been said about him , were privately so astonished , so relieved , so savagely glad to be alive that if someone had proposed to bury him upside down in a bucket of horse manure they would probably have agreed it was all for the best . |
| 19 | The mood will change when the group 's new record sells fewer than the last one . |
| 20 | ‘ More letters followed , each one more urgent than the last . |
| 21 | This greed for glory , the rage to be the victor — no-one was so fearsome in possession of this quality than the last of the great masters of the peloton , Bernard Hinault . |
| 22 | Now another transformation is under way at T&L — much of it Staley-inspired — and it is likely to prove even more dramatic than the last . |
| 23 | The way twisted between these ramparts , each one higher than the last , and then emerged on an open space several acres in extent . |
| 24 | Martin , who represented Fulham in the Conservative interest , lived in some style at the Albany in Piccadilly and liked to remark that ‘ every passing year — do n't you find , dear boy — is just more fun than the last ? ’ |
| 25 | But , inexorably , each atoning lapse is easier than the last . |
| 26 | No concerted attempt was made to rectify this major perceived weakness relative to the Tories , although they have a far worse record on unemployment , taxation , interest rates , economic growth , balance of payments and government borrowing relative to national income ( taking into account privatisation proceeds ) than the last Labour government . |
| 27 | It engulfed her in successive waves , each one stronger than the last , and then it was one long pain , tearing at her guts . |
| 28 | The next case is even more implementation orientated than the last . |
| 29 | It was one wild party after another , each one worse than the last . |
| 30 | By the end of that book , though , they have got to the 13th March , some eight days later than the last events of which we are told in Book III . |