Example sentences of "[coord] [is] [adv] [adv] [adj -er] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |
| 2 | This opposition has not been coherent or co-ordinated , and is still much weaker than the centripetal trends it opposes . |
| 3 | Late Cenozoic volcanism , which is extensive over much of the area , and low seismic wave velocities together suggest that the lithosphere below the Tibetan Plateau is still unusually hot and is therefore probably weaker than in adjacent areas . |
| 4 | Then there is the fishing cat Felis viverrina , meaning the ferret-like cat , which frequents swampy ground , has slightly webbed feet and can , as its name suggests , hook fish out of shallow water with its claws ; the flat-headed cat , Felis plamiceps , of Malaya , Borneo and Sumatra which preys on frogs , fish and small birds and the marbled cat , Felis marmorata , which lives in Sumatra and Borneo and is only slightly larger than a domestic cat . |
| 5 | It is , er it being a modern book as I say , completely new , it 's , it 's , it 's part of the desk top publishing sort of revolution , so the actual data base is , is all held on computer , on a magnetic tape and is actually much bigger than this single volume book . |