Example sentences of "[adv] than at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best time to start exercising is at the start rather than at the end of a dieting campaign . |
| 2 | We have , then , arrived at the beginning rather than at the end of a story . |
| 3 | Reporting back to the investors on a regular basis rather than at the end of the process is likely to be advantageous to the investors , and is essential in larger transactions as interim action may be required as a result of the investigation process . |
| 4 | So I 've added it in the middle , rather than at the end . |
| 5 | They heard it at the beginning rather than at the end . |
| 6 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 7 | Chaucer makes this point on more than one occasion , nowhere more emphatically than at the end of the Canterbury Tales , after the Parson 's Tale , where he " revokes " in his " retractions " " " my translacions and endytinges of worldly vanitees " " ( endytinges : compositions ) including " " the tales of Caunterbury , thilke that sownen into synne " " ( sownen into synne : " resonate with sin " ) ( X : 1084 – 5 ) . |