Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] than elsewhere " in BNC.
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| 1 | This level of poverty might be thought to have been peculiar to London , which was believed by contemporaries to have a greater concentration of poverty than elsewhere . |
| 2 | It 'll mean more Day Care , more Home Care , more Occupational Therapy , for people in an area of the county who get far less levels of service than elsewhere in the county . |
| 3 | With the labour force depleted by the military , there were jobs to be filled , and at better rates of pay than elsewhere in the country . |
| 4 | Mercury 's orbit is fairly eccentric , and therefore a tidal bulge would be acted on by the Sun a good deal more strongly near perihelion than elsewhere in the orbit . |
| 5 | Second , the problem of female rule was arguably less severe in Scotland than elsewhere . |
| 6 | By the end of the year he was predicting , in research carried out for the Scottish National Party , that unemployment would have a worse impact in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK , reflecting the poorer social conditions prevalent there . |
| 7 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 8 | Alan Macfarlane has recently argued that the social pressure to enforce them was less strong in England than elsewhere . |
| 9 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 10 | Hooliganism is more habitual and more fully developed in Britain than elsewhere , but it is not confined to Britain . |
| 11 | Such politically engaged postmodernism is rarer in Britain than elsewhere . |
| 12 | A variant of this general theory is that the balance of class forces was different and less confrontational in Britain than elsewhere , hence there was less of the resentment that produced extreme-right reactions . |
| 13 | Ms Harman said the gap between men and women 's wages is wider in Britain than elsewhere in Europe because of the lack of a minimum wage . |
| 14 | The process made for a much slower reduction in unemployment than elsewhere in the Yorkshire , Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Coalfields , and there were fears of the industry being cut to 35,000–40,000 men , with the possible ending of mining in Scotland , Wales and the North East . |
| 15 | I thought that certainty is more likely to be found in mathematics than elsewhere . |
| 16 | Chantries were more popular in London than elsewhere and every City church could boast at least one . |
| 17 | The gulf between primary and secondary health care is greater in London than elsewhere . |