than
/ðæn/ preposition A1- Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates. · Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.· No player is more skillful than Greg.
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Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won’t talk back--unless it is a woman who won’t.
“It is more important than you think, perhaps.
“If we choose,” replied Danglars, “he will remain what he is; and perhaps become even less than he is.”
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