Example sentences of "[adj] than at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bridget reported that the numbers for the Easter Course were much lower than at the previous courses held at Avery Hill . |
| 4 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 5 | Here the colour tones overall , are more subdued than at the Cornmarket auction , with a multitude of tweed or tan flat caps and Lincolnshire green ‘ wellies ’ , bodywarmers and anoraks . |
| 6 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
| 7 | The protocol at Ingard House was far more elaborate than at the head office of the bank . |
| 8 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 9 | The defence in general is 200% better than at the start of the year . |
| 10 | There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year . |
| 11 | There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York . |
| 12 | Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal . |
| 13 | If the pond-building books fail to acknowledge Murphy 's Law , it is nowhere more evident than at the point where neat diagrams demonstrate the laying of slabs over flap of liner . |
| 14 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 15 | Figures from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys show that the number of voters is significantly less than at the time of the 1987 election , even though the adult population has grown . |
| 16 | The officer 's undress headgear was a dark blue visored forage cap of ‘ pill-box ’ shape : ‘ … the diameter at the top slightly less than at the base , the height 3¼ inches all round ; … |
| 17 | The amount of money donated to the Village Association through the envelopes is less than at the same time last year . |
| 18 | The net tangible assets of the Business are at the date of this Agreement and will pending Completion be no less than at the Balance Sheet Date and the profits of the Business from the Balance Sheet Date to the date of this Agreement and pending Completion are and will be proportionately no less than the profits for the previous financial year . |
| 19 | The congress was attended by over 600 delegates representing some 80,000 party members , approximately 20,000 less than at the time of the 20th congress held in February 1991 [ see pp. 38008-09 ] . |
| 20 | He was still limping slightly , but much less than at the beginning of the week . |
| 21 | In particular , since oscillation is avoided if the phase shift is less than at the frequency at which falls to unity , it follows that a negative-feedback amplifier involving just first-order networks is stable if the slope of the plot of versus is less than 12dB per octave as the condition is approached . |
| 22 | The team looks more mature than at the start of the season . |
| 23 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard Co is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 24 | If there is a twist to the plot , then it is nowhere more apparent than at the window management level where , it seems , Hewlett-Packard is determined to make its Visual User Environment stick . |
| 25 | The SNP vote is higher than at the last three elections , but it is a soft vote , and still well below the figure it reached in October 1974 . |
| 26 | Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July . |
| 27 | The minimum fell somewhere between maternal ages 20 and 35 years and , from the minimum , the proportion of still births increased again towards older maternal age where , in most samples , it became higher than at the younger end of the maternal age scale . |
| 28 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 29 | Oil prices remained 35 per cent higher than at the same time the previous year , the prospect of increased trade with Saudi Arabia and Iran opened up and major development projects , such as the expansion of the Das Island gas liquefaction plant and Dubai 's dhow wharfage scheme , recommenced . |
| 30 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |