Example sentences of "[noun] than at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 2 | If the magnetic field happens to be larger at one side than at the other side , then the beam will be deflected towards the weaker field which makes the field even weaker , etc. , leading to the so-called kink instability ( Fig. 3.3(b) ) . |
| 3 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 4 | It aims more at political and peaceful penetration than at profit . |
| 5 | If an organisation like a local authority does not have clear and effective channels of internal communication , then how will it manage to communicate with the communities it serves when , through the white-collar CCT process , it speaks with many more voices than at present ? |
| 6 | The scope for bringing influence to bear and exerting power , in the best sense of the word , is probably greater at midlife than at any other time . |
| 7 | ‘ Under the Conservatives more homeowners have lost their homes than at any time since the war . |
| 8 | Husayn proceeded in the belief that he could discard the PLO , which was in a weaker condition than at any time since 1967 . |
| 9 | As above , no comparative data were given but we found that cuckoos fledged more chicks both per nest and per egg laid at Santa Fe than at Guadix ( Table 1 ) . |
| 10 | Differences between the two areas may simply reflect the fact that the density of cuckoos relative to that of their hosts is larger at Santa Fe than at Guadix ( Table 1 ) . |
| 11 | This could in turn explain why a higher proportion of experimental eggs were rejected at Santa Fe than at Guadix , because hosts are known to be more likely to reject alien eggs when they are alerted by encounters with the adult parasite in the vicinity of their nest . |
| 12 | The perceptive Boris Chicherin spotted as early as 1858 that The Bell was " better at throwing government and society into confusion than at suggesting the precise path they should follow " . |
| 13 | Women in lonely places are there more in the dark than at any other time of the year . |
| 14 | You 'd rather have a day out at York racecourse than at Headingley if truth were known , would n't you ? |
| 15 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 16 | White noise is not a good simulator of music , which contains more energy at low frequencies than at high ones . |
| 17 | In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948 . |
| 18 | The model 's performance is better at some times than at others . |
| 19 | During the life-cycle of the family it was easier to maintain a home ashore at some times than at others . |
| 20 | On the other hand , in countries where fetal deaths for the maternal age group under 15 are not reported separately but are included in the under 20 age group , the relationship takes a " J " shape , since the chances for giving birth a viable child are poorer at the oldest childbearing ages than at the late teens . |
| 21 | If the sciences were less subordinate to theology at the time of Newton than at the time of Copernicus , had the Reformation in religion created favorable conditions for a reformation in science ? |
| 22 | A curfew imposed by the government is still in effect , although it seems directed more at confining soldiers and policemen to their barracks than at keeping civilians off the streets . |
| 23 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 24 | Write-offs also rose faster at the regionals than at the money-centre banks . |
| 25 | The record at the LEA level is , as we have seen earlier , not a promising one , since LEAs have been much more effective at producing curriculum policies than at monitoring and implementing them at the school level . |
| 26 | A person in their eighties today has lived through a century of more change than at any other time in history . |
| 27 | Body temperature is higher in the daytime than at night , and urine flow is lower overnight . |
| 28 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 29 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 30 | More foreign gods were admitted into the Greek pantheon than at any time since prehistory . |