1.   All these states were poorer than the previous members, with less industrialised economies and less secure democratic traditions.

2.   Secondly, very elderly women are poorer than young ones.

3.   The northern half of the city is generally poorer.

4.   It also has a horseshoe arch entrance to the sanctuary, but its decoration is poorer than that at S. Juan.

5.   Also, because women are poorer than men, each dollar spent on them means proportionally more.

6.   Although most live in far better conditions than the misery they fled from, they are poorer than other recent immigrants.

7.   American blacks may be poorer than whites, but Johnson has discovered how to make good money out of them.

8.   And everybody on the planet eventually will be poorer for it.

9.   And few are poorer.