Example sentences of "than that [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive .
2 Furthermore there were furniture firms short of work and again the development time for a wooden aeroplane has always been much shorter than that for a metal one .
3 The charge is likely to be higher than that for a parishioner .
4 The mourning observed for Jacob was only two days shorter than that for a pharaoh .
5 There are few more important questions than that for an eagle to answer .
6 Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed .
7 Or was it less his personality that accounted for their compliance than his power — a power so much greater than that of a headmaster within the State system ?
8 There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system .
9 He saw no inconsistency between such temporary infatuations and the matrimonial ideal he presented now to Hooton , as he had already discussed it with Helen : ‘ I am not at all sure that there is anywhere a loftier , while there could be no sweeter , perfection than that of a household ’ .
10 Instead , as we go deeper and deeper the gaseous hydrogen gradually gets denser and denser until imperceptibly , and at pressures considerably in excess of those in Figure 9.9 , it acquires a density more characteristic of a liquid than that of a gas .
11 The health council has not yet taken an official position on the board 's proposals , but Mr Tait said that since Arbroath was a popular holiday town , it required better services than that of a cottage hospital .
12 Phage φ29 has a linear genome whose degree of supercoiling in the cell is not known , but it is probably lower than that of a plasmid .
13 As for commercial reactions , they can be judged by the fact that the capital cost of a first FBR is estimated by the British nuclear industry at between 20 and 30 per cent greater than that of a PWR , and generating costs 20 per cent more .
14 And realised for the first time that my lot as a walker was far safer than that of a cyclist .
15 Before the king 's court , she , her husband and her mother , Adelizia , maintained that the claim of a daughter was greater than that of a nephew .
16 In our experience dogs manage the loss of a front leg slightly better than that of a back leg .
17 Those making a decision need also to have in mind that , whilst an electronic instrument requires no tuning and very little maintenance , its life expectancy is at present shorter than that of a pipe organ .
18 It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere .
19 This characteristic is quite general and holds for geodesics in spaces that are less symmetric than that of a sphere , and in spaces of hi–her dimension .
20 Otters gather a certain amount , but an otter holt is usually a natural hole between rocks or roots , and much smaller than that of a badger .
21 Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' .
22 And the venom of the notorious black widow spider , far more potent than that of a rattlesnake , is now being utilised to treat disabling diseases of the nervous and muscular systems .
23 But if a wife 's allegation of rape is true , her motive for bringing it is no more relevant than that of a householder who notifies the police about a burglary merely in order to recover insurance .
24 THE two bosses who cut their own pay to less than that of a trainee to preserve jobs set a fine example in these tough times .
25 Whilst sailing in surf you should always keep an eye out for these sets since if you do n't you may suddenly find yourself amongst the larger waves whose ‘ rinse cycles ’ are considerably more vigorous than that of a washing machine .
26 Similarly , Delozier ( 1982 ) has described the histories of eighteen ‘ typical ’ abusing mothers , which show that their childhood contained much more by way of threat of abandonment and harm than that of a comparison group of mothers .
27 The average frequency of occurrence of a source node is greater than that of a target node , and a source node always has more than one target .
28 I have to confess at this point that my own sensitivity to psychic phenomena is scarcely higher than that of a slab of concrete .
29 It is twenty times faster , has a larger memory , is thousands of times more reliable , consumes the power of a light bulb rather than that of a locomotive , occupies 1/30,000 the volume and costs 1/10,000 as much .
30 Teenage farm workers are particularly sensitive to their image at an age when they are dating girls who may or may not hope for a better future than that of a farm worker 's wife .
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