Example sentences of "than [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , there had always been routes through from Earth into the Dominions , other than that at the Retreat . |
| 2 | The two categories of CO adsorption heats are based on the K precoverage being higher or lower than that at the work function minimum . |
| 3 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 5 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 7 | The project has now taken the population from 18 animals to more than 300 at the end of the 1991 breeding season . |
| 8 | The population of more than 300,000 at the time of Cook 's arrival had plummeted to less than 40,000 by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | They came into the possession of my son Hilbert John Adam Verne-Smith under my uncle 's will , bypassing myself , though my son was no more than nineteen at the time of my uncle 's death . |
| 10 | She was seized and held in a crushing embrace before she could do more than tense at the look on his face . |
| 11 | She spoke quite often of snowy landscapes glimpsed through carriage windows and small hands curled up in a muff made of grey fur , even though she could not have been more than three at the time . |
| 12 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
| 13 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 14 | Needless to say , Mr Kilfedder , 63 , is less than happy at the intrusion of the Conservatives into his feifdom . |
| 15 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
| 16 | Very frequently people closer to today 's marketplace than to the board are more realistic about the possibilities for their business than those at the top . |
| 17 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 18 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |
| 19 | Primary-school teachers have to work harder at reducing their remoteness from large aspects of policy than those at the secondary or FE stages . |
| 20 | The excess mortality is not limited to underground workers , since workers above ground have a raised standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) for gastric cancer ( 143 ) , which is similar to that for underground workers other than those at the coal face ( SMR 144 ) . |
| 21 | There are several spine-like papillae at the apex of the jaw , distal to these papillae the jaw appears to be covered by irregularly spaced oral papillae which are smaller and more rounded than those at the apex . |
| 22 | BA wants to put Gatwick-based pilots , cabin crew and ground staff on lower rates of pay than those at the airline 's main base at Heathrow . |
| 23 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 24 | The toothy grin of this naturally modest farmer 's son was less than villainous at the finish . |
| 25 | Although the book suggests my beavers should be aggressive , alas , try as I might , I ca n't get them to be anything less than overjoyed at the prospect of more delicious fish-eggs . |
| 26 | He must have been more fed up than most at the defeat after opening the scoring in the 13th minute , his first goal of the season . |
| 27 | Renault dealers seem happier than most at the moment , buoyed by the success of the Clio . |
| 28 | The intended beneficiary of this dynastic coup was Osred ( II ) , the son of King Alhred by Osgifu , Aelfwald 's sister , a youth of no more than 19 at the time , who reigned for a year but then fell a victim to further shifts of allegiance when in 789 he was taken prisoner , deprived of his kingdom , tonsured at York and expelled , and Aethelred , son of Aethelwald , resumed royal power ( ASC D , s.a. 788 , 789 ) . |