Example sentences of "than [prep] [noun] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a split in self-perception is , I think , more likely to occur in girls than in boys at the time of puberty because the physiological changes which a boy undergoes are likely to be treated as marks of manhood , whereas what happens to a girl is more likely not to be mentioned , although in many ways the signs of her having reached puberty are more obviously visible . |
| 2 | There is also the possibility of making many more measurements in such a laboratory than in experiments at the poles or in caves . |
| 3 | How is it that the United States ' ( and British ) military machine — more American troops and weapons than in Europe at the height of the cold war — is pounding away , day after day , at a low-tech Third World enemy ? |
| 4 | So in this sense the approach is a pragmatic one , which bears on the here and now rather than on eternity.i At the same time , to formulate the problem in terms of interests , as I have done , is to focus attention on the moral priorities embedded in holism and individualism . |
| 5 | the accounting for VAT by the taxpayer on his VAT return rather than by collection at the frontier ; |