EGAVE

than

About 934.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. conjunction Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
    The movie has a different name than I thought.
  2. conjunction Because; for.
  3. preposition 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.
  4. adverb At that time; then.

Similar words

whereas then besides rather because though once beyond just relative

Often followed by

the a in that one to any those it they

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