Example sentences of "[adj] than at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these reservations MDC has enjoyed major successes in physically regenerating its area , which looks dramatically different than at its initial designation . |
| 2 | The emphasis may be different than at Forest but the essentials are the same . |
| 3 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 4 | Jim Heslop of Borderway market in Carlisle believes the general situation will be steadier than at first thought . |
| 5 | The fourth principle is that ‘ personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate , relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes ’ — and there is more to this than at first meets the eye . |
| 6 | Opinion polls now show that employers are blamed for Britain 's economic problems and union are more popular than at any time in their history . |
| 7 | Still , he reckons that the bigger the mainframe , the cheaper relatively it is to buy — 10% cheaper , in fact , at the top than at the bottom end of the range . |
| 8 | Home Office Minister , John Patten who 's also MP for Oxford west and Abingdon , says the scheme is much fairer than at present . |
| 9 | The emphasis on research , however , is less marked than at Heidrick and Struggles , and there is no movement upwards from the ranks of researchers . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there is some indication that this decline may be less marked than at first appears due to the nomenclature of the diseases involved . |
| 11 | With the 1989 Housing Act in effect , this will be even more strongly enforced than at present . |
| 12 | New studies show that targetting normal genes using viral and other systems to enter cells ( from marrow , the lung and gut , liver and skin ) may be easier than at first thought , and that DNA will function more or less normally once it gets into the cell . |
| 13 | On the whole , in spite of governmental interest in some special areas and in some kinds of investment , and in spite of tariffs , economic life was more free from interference and more completely self-regulating than at any other time , before or since . |
| 14 | Dr Hunt has pointed out that the geography of farm wages changed far more between 1750 and 1790 than at any time in the period 1790 to 1914 . |
| 15 | The statistics in Table 18 also point to the markedly greater risks of childbearing at ages 45 and over than at ages 15–44 . |
| 16 | The obstetric related problems , as defined in Table 15 , are far more frequently the cause of maternal deaths at maternal ages 45 and over than at ages below 15 years . |
| 17 | ‘ On the contrary , with high levels of transport growth the emissions of nitrogen oxides from road vehicles may be higher in 2020 than at present . ’ |
| 18 | His obligatory attendance of the 40th birthday party of East Germany has helped to leave that self-advertised ‘ pillar of European stability ’ and ‘ trustiest of friends of the Soviet Union ’ looking more unstable than at any time since the Red Army moved in to suppress the uprising of 17 June 1953 . |
| 19 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S shopkeepers are gloomier than at any time since the early 1980s , according to a survey published yesterday . |
| 21 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 22 | Peter Laslett has written that ‘ Bastard babies must have been commoner between 1810 and 1850 than at any other time in our past for which details are known before our own permissive generation . ’ |
| 23 | Last night you made me feel more alive than at any time since the crash . |
| 24 | Even so , the carry from the men 's tee was considered particularly daunting , for it was also lower than at present , and even the new bank in front failed to ease the psychological effects of both hazard , distance and danger . |
| 25 | The population of Great Britain is increasing although the rate of increase is lower than at earlier times in our history . |
| 26 | In 1894 , the year of the reconstituted Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , monthly rates for ABs on steam vessels were lower than at any time since 1888 . |
| 27 | As Mead pointed out , the numbers ( estimated at 13,000 ) are lower than at any time since the institute started counting more than 20 years ago , and well below the peak of 15,400 in 1989 . |
| 28 | The number of days lost through strikes is lower than at any time since 1979 , and people ought to know that Labour policies would sweep all that away and bring back the sort of industrial anarchy that existed in 1978-79 . |
| 29 | Bridget reported that the numbers for the Easter Course were much lower than at the previous courses held at Avery Hill . |
| 30 | All this , supported by literary evidence , suggests deterioration : bleaker diets ( but with the poor still demanding wheat ) , a decline in non-food purchasing , with standards probably lower than at any other time since the wars at the beginning of the eighteenth century . |