Sentences with than
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T t - The arrangement was more a formality than a genuine partnership of two nations.
- Shorter than you
- In formal English, than is usually regarded as a conjunction governing an unexpressed verb: he does it far better than I (do). The case of any pronoun therefore depends on whether it is the subject or object of the unexpressed verb: she likes him more than I (like him); she likes him more than (she likes) me. However in ordinary speech and writing than is usually treated as a preposition and is followed by the object form of a pronoun: my brother is younger than me
- Rather than be imprisoned, I shall die
- None other than Sam
- Scarcely had I seen her than she spoke to me
- Paris was different than I'd thought it would be
- Her story is different than his
- A writer than whom there is none finer
- The radio only weighs a few ounces and is smaller than a cigarette packet.
- He wished he could have helped her more than he did.
- They talked on the phone for more than an hour.
- He is a person than whom I can imagine no one more courteous.