Example sentences of "[adj -er] than i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were much taller than me with long brown arms covered with green leaves . |
| 2 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 3 | some of you are a lot younger than me of course , it could be a lot smaller , but er er showing this to teenagers , if you work out what age a teenager will be in the year twenty forty , they 'll be about er in their mid sixties so this period of time , basically , is the time over which our present er generation of schoolchildren will have their adult life . |
| 4 | If anyone is going to break it they are going to have to be better than me over the first fifty metres , so it 's going to be difficult . |
| 5 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 6 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 7 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 8 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 9 | I can tell you something , Alex is a lot better than me at it . |
| 10 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 11 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |
| 12 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
| 13 | Not really , it does n't annoy me but I know there are some like women older than me in in my office that know they 're not gon na get anywhere because it 's all men . |
| 14 | He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way . |