Example sentences of "than [noun] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE CHARLATANS , THE SUGARCUBES and PEARL JAM raised more than $150,000 at the recent Earth Day Edge Festival in Dallas . |
| 2 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 3 | At £15,000 per annum per patient in 1982 the hospitals were 40 per cent more expensive in running costs than asylums at the cheaper end of the range . |
| 4 | Philip Gould nudged stony-faced Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega out of army fatigues and into cowboy boots ; the same Philip Gould was described by The Times as having ‘ helped save the Labour Party more than £500,000 at the last election ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment . |
| 6 | Scientific correspondents of the UK press expressed surprise rather than incredulity at the Argentine claims . |
| 7 | ‘ I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic , ’ he said later . |