Example sentences of "than [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 2 | This was charity on a princely scale , but politically it further exasperated the king , who would rather have taken £500 with ill-will than nothing at all . |
| 3 | This is that a homeland with secure borders , however small , is better than nothing at all . |
| 4 | I emphasize ‘ in my view ’ because not everyone will agree , and of course a very small telescope is a great deal better than nothing at all . |
| 5 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 6 | But a small sample for comparison is better than nothing at all . |
| 7 | I 'd rather have that than nothing at |
| 8 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 9 | Well , better than nothing at all ! |
| 10 | ‘ No one ever gave me the slightest inkling that they thought any different than me at the recording sessions and things like that . |
| 11 | Get talking to people over a few drinks ; you 're better than me at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 12 | They are better than me at some things . |
| 13 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
| 14 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 15 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 16 | I say gel but she was a year older than me at least . |
| 17 | I think this woman with the three grown-up sons is not younger than me at all , but almost certainly older . |
| 18 | He 'd be faster than me at long distance , by a long way . |
| 19 | I can tell you something , Alex is a lot better than me at it . |
| 20 | I am better than them at other things . |
| 21 | But they ca n't keep us down forever 'cause we 're going to show whites that we 're better than them at their own game . |
| 22 | Roy Nash ( 1973 , p. 17 ) discovered that pupils as young as eight years were able to say which children in the class were better than them at reading , writing and number ; and their self-perceived class rank correlated highly with the rankings made by the teacher at the researcher 's request ( and therefore not explicitly available hitherto for communication to the children ) . |
| 23 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 24 | He ‘ lets go ’ in a frightening tantrum — banging his head , kicking , screaming and yelling — when he can not get his own way , such as when you try to insist on his doing something , refuse his commands or attend to people other than himself at a time when he wants your undivided attention . |
| 25 | Mr Brice , it turned out when he got to C4 , was not older than himself at all . |
| 26 | In book three of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells , he wrote : ‘ Guidebooks that are inaccurate and unreliable are worse than none at all … |
| 27 | Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all . |
| 28 | 3 Better make a decision than none at all . |
| 29 | Even one night with Patrick Kelly was better than none at all . |
| 30 | We would rather than none at all . |