Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] than at the " in BNC.

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1 While the delay to the start of the flying programme has been much longer than anyone would wish , much more progress has been made in the ground and rig testing than at the comparable stage of any previous project I have been associated with and we are very satisfied indeed with the results that have been obtained so far .
2 This in fact repeats more generally what was stated with regard to environmental competence by Article 130R(4) of the EEC Treaty , inserted by the Single European Act , under which ‘ the Community shall take action relating to the environment to the extent to which the objectives … can be attained better at Community level than at the level of the individual Member States ’ , a provision which does not yet appear to have been the object of scrutiny by the European Court of Justice .
3 ‘ British industry is far more productive , far more competitive , better managed and with better industrial relations , in a better tax climate than at the beginning of the 1980s , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ so it is better placed to benefit from economic recovery . ’
4 Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start .
5 What better way to debut Belfast than at the Festival ?
6 On the other hand , in countries where fetal deaths for the maternal age group under 15 are not reported separately but are included in the under 20 age group , the relationship takes a " J " shape , since the chances for giving birth a viable child are poorer at the oldest childbearing ages than at the late teens .
7 In the USA far more states now hold party primaries than at the start of the post-war period , and the sequence of primary results is increasingly the key determinant of presidential candidate selection .
8 Yet , first , that outcome of specialization which is an assumed general division between those who create and perform and those who merely receive is not significantly greater at this level of material techniques than at the level of systems of training of inherent resources .
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