Example sentences of "than [pron] fathers " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviewing McBride , Eliot quoted from that writer 's conclusion that , given proper education of mind and body , ‘ the next generation may start at a very slightly higher level of capacity than their fathers ’ . |
| 2 | The graduates had frequently been more successful than their fathers , in educational achievement but , in general , were entering occupations of similar status to those of their fathers ( Filgueira 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Most of them have managed their own homes and catered for their families efficiently for many years , and even elderly men know a little more about cooking than their fathers did . |
| 4 | A great many of them , certainly those who are the prime candidates to read our magazine , are strikingly different as fathers than their fathers ; they 're also different lovers , husbands , bosses and sons . |
| 5 | These men feel more relaxed about their clothes than their fathers did . |
| 6 | In the sample as a whole , it could be argued , there was a tendency for the brides to be marrying husbands either with white-collar jobs , or in trades slightly better paid than their fathers . |
| 7 | Matching this change , the survey shows that men from working-class backgrounds were less likely than their fathers to be found holding manual wage-earning positions . |
| 8 | Many men are as tall as or taller than their fathers and Stephen was six feet , but Dadda still towered above him . |
| 9 | I know two or three lads of the next generation beyond us who are doing in their twenties rather better than their fathers in their fifties . |