单词 | better than |
释义 | > as lemmasbetter than b. better than: more than. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > greater number moOE moreOE fele1340 better than1471 outnumbering1796 1471 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 352 That shall dysseavayll hym better than a cc marc. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 129 Able to furnish better then ten thousand men with horse. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 239 The bodies..being better than an inch long. 1739 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk I. 708 This Town was better than a Mile long, and as much broad. 1769 T. Gray Let. 26 Jan. in Corr. (1971) III. 1054 It is better than three weeks since I wrote to you. 1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 399 I think it is now better than five-and-twenty years ago. 1874 H. S. Caswell Walter Harland xxiii. 133 It's better than a month ago, I dreamed of bein' over here. 1958 Musical Q. 44 271 William Bergsma..has for better than a decade been recognized by some as a highly provocative musical talent. 2005 J. Horne Desire Street 50 Kyles was better than a month into this nightmare, a month and a million miles from the world he had known across town. < as lemmas |
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