Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did , did , did your hours of work get shorter or anything like that ? |
| 2 | I was taller than him in those days , would you believe . |
| 3 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 4 | Well , if you 'ave 'im two days at a time , it 's better than nowt at all in n it . |
| 5 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 8 | Of course sometimes I do have additional information showing that the authority is better than me in some areas and not in others . |
| 9 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 10 | This is that a homeland with secure borders , however small , is better than nothing at all . |
| 11 | But a small sample for comparison is better than nothing at all . |
| 12 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 13 | They seem to be able to cope with it far better than anybody in this group at the moment do n't they . |
| 14 | No he was n't as , as , strong-wise he was hitting as well as you , but he was he was n't as , much better than you at all . |
| 15 | Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all . |
| 16 | Even one night with Patrick Kelly was better than none at all . |
| 17 | A simple , rudimentary , half-cocked eye/ear/ echolocation system/cuckoo parasitism system , etc. , is better than none at all . |
| 18 | Half a love surely had to be better than none at all ? |
| 19 | Small steps are better than none at all . |
| 20 | But I mean , su surely that that 's better than none at all ? |
| 21 | There were a lot of people older than me with more experience of life . |
| 22 | Mr Brice , it turned out when he got to C4 , was not older than himself at all . |
| 23 | In book three of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , he wrote : ‘ Guidebooks that are inaccurate and unreliable are worse than none at all … |
| 24 | Vague information was worse than none at all as far as we were concerned , as we were obliged to do something about it , however hopeless it might seem . |
| 25 | They know that their children are stronger than them in many ways and it is hard for them to come to terms with that and still keep their dignity and self-respect . |