Example sentences of "at [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim was better at that than Phoebe was , and inside herself she sulked . |
| 2 | You are better at that than Nigel . |
| 3 | God knows , he could n't be any worse at that than he was at his last job … |
| 4 | Geoffrey was also in charge of the effects record on the Panatrope ; he was better at that than moving about the stage . |
| 5 | Americans are much better at this than we are . |
| 6 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 7 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 8 | He 's much better at this than belly-dancing in the desert , covered in clay . |
| 9 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 10 | erm I 'm not sure that Anne , erm with her special knowledge of French politics , would n't be better at this than me , but these thoughts come through a historian 's head . |
| 11 | It is by no means clear that the Church and Queen position of 1710 – 14 was any more popular in the nation at large than had been the Church and King position of either 1660 – 2 or 1681 – 5 . |
| 12 | Singleton seamer Bill Cameron , whose 50 tour wickets at fewer than six runs apiece must have made him wish his name was de Silva , hit the winning run with two wickets standing , before a lavish banquet in the Galle Face Hotel . |
| 13 | Change at deeper than surface level was maximized as a result of those courses whose messages about practice were clear , unambiguous and precise as to both their substance and their status ( as policy , recommendation , suggestion or option ) . |
| 14 | There are hundreds of different negotiating tactics and many people are rather better at these than the critical creation of the basic plan . |
| 15 | " Now I feel younger at seventy than I did at sixty . |
| 16 | The prescription of glasses may not help their reading distance , but they may be able to read adequately by holding their books at closer than the normal distance . |
| 17 | We would rather have no help at all than continue to do that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I guess they just want other sorts of women in their movies in Hollywood , ’ she shrugs , saying she 'd rather now have no offers at all than be asked to play the kind of ‘ one-note , bitchy character ’ that has since come her way . |
| 19 | The the the the trouble is he got more recognition for that for getting no points at all than he did probably if he 'd have bloody won that thing . |
| 20 | Only the Queen , with a total annual income from the state of £475,000 , came out at better than American rates — $1,330,000 — but two-thirds of that sum was specifically for maintaining her enormous household . |
| 21 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 22 | A grouped F -test shows that addition of the QPO component is a significant improvement at better than 95% confidence . |
| 23 | The QPO is significant at better than 99% confidence for 1986/062 , and at 96% confidence for 1986/109 , but only at 60% confidence for 1984/193 . |
| 24 | For the space of two heartbeats the two protagonists , hunter and quarry , glared at each other across the intervening gap of a few feet , while hurtling through the night at better than 80 m.p.h . |
| 25 | I heard him scramble to his feet and his metal-tipped boots took him down the stone corridor at better than the track record . |
| 26 | Two lower jaws , one from Lothagam in northern Kenya is now dated at older than 5.6Myr , and a slightly younger lower jaw from Tabarin from deposits just over 5Myr share very similar morphology with each other and with Australopithecus afarensis . |
| 27 | As illustrated , B-but not A can attain a higher indifference curve at 3 than at 2 , and therefore B is seen as being envious of A , and therefore point 2 is efficient but unfair in B 's terms . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was a tiredness resulting from the previous 14 pitches , but I could see no way of free climbing it at less than E5 , and I was n't good enough for that , not now . |
| 29 | Remember these routes are all on limestone , which rarely gives good routes at less than VS , but a line of bolts , ending at a firmly anchored chain , up dry and solid rock , means that a much bolder approach can be adopted than on the polished , easier routes of Stoney or the vertical scree of Swanage . |
| 30 | The United pilots ' union had attempted unsuccessfully to finance a similar bid a year ago when the airline was trading at less than half the final sale price . |