Example sentences of "there was [adv] [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Abie this Friday meant something special ; there was even more than the Sabbath to return to . |
| 2 | It was cool under the canopy and there was less light than Rostov had expected . |
| 3 | Throughout the day-long fair , there was never less than a queue of about a dozen . |
| 4 | She was sitting beneath the narrow , barred window when he entered the room , and the first thing he saw was the light lying ashen in her fair hair ; there was more grey than gold in it now . |
| 5 | There was more implied than said : it was Friday afternoon , it was getting on , the watering holes were filling up . |
| 6 | There was always better than an even chance of something like this happening . |
| 7 | There was always more than a hint , of course , that the real source of anxiety was that the bicycle might be enlarging the freedom of women in undesirable directions , because both in terms of class and sex the bicycle was a great leveller . |
| 8 | The contrast with chemistry came up frequently , and there was often more than a hint of reductionism in the comparison : |
| 9 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 10 | When Ellie went scarlet , because there was definitely more than a grain of truth in that statement , she laughed , not unkindly . |