Example sentences of "lost a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have people lost a clearer ‘ sense of obligation ’ to assist their kin which existed in the past ? |
| 2 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 3 | These include Rondonia , which has lost a further 14 per cent of its territory to deforestation , and Amapa , which has lost 9 per cent . |
| 4 | He , too , had lost a younger brother during the war and remained bitter in his attitude towards Establishment politics . |
| 5 | And in Italy opinion polls suggest the Socialist Party has lost a larger share of support since the election a year ago than any other party . |
| 6 | Midge had lost an elder brother , killed by a shell on his nineteenth birthday in the Second World War . |