Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [adv] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw no risk at all in our artistic adventure , although it got dark much quicker than I 'd expected . |
| 2 | I very much hope that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-East ( Mr. Turner ) , as well as my hon. Friend , will welcome the fact that whereas in 1979 , 4 million working days were lost in the west midlands , recently days lost total little more than 100,000 a year . |
| 3 | As the gunfire ceased , Ace and Benny ushered the Marines through the door , the group including a pair of medical orderlies who added Petion to their own collection of wounded , and followed after them through the tunnels that led upward more steeply than the others . |
| 4 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 5 | ‘ Schooled children did this more often than unschooled and so were less context-bound ’ ( ibid. p. 174 ) . |