Example sentences of "than [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even with a reserve , however , your rug may well realize more at auction than in a specialist shop . |
| 32 | It would appear , then , that in an exchange rate union member countries enjoy a higher degree of monetary autonomy than in a currency union . |
| 33 | Ceramic floor tiles are generally laid in special adhesive rather than in a mortar screed . |
| 34 | On top of that , there 's the mystery surrounding the fact that the black folks mostly turned their guitars upright and played slide in the Spanish position rather than in a lap style — typically inventive , of course , but quite a departure all the same . |
| 35 | On the road , the biggest difference you notice with the diesel is the need to change up a gear slightly earlier than in a petrol car . |
| 36 | You would rather stand in the rain any day than in a bus shelter . ’ |
| 37 | For example erosion rates in a vertisol will have very much less of an impact upon yield than in a granite sand . |
| 38 | The mothers of children admitted into care expressed less warmth and showed less sensitivity in their parenting , and their child control was less effective , than in a comparison group of families . |
| 39 | Thus both Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) and Brown and Harris and their colleagues ( Harris et al. , 1987a ) have shown that pregnancies are more common amongst girls with childhood lack of care than in a comparison group . |
| 40 | A prospective cohort study [ 6 ] carried out on a general population in the west of Scotland found that mortality from all causes was higher in passive smokers than in a control group of nonsmokers , as were all causes of death related to smoking , including mortality from lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease . |
| 41 | So again we would predict that the measured apc would be higher in a slump year than in a boom year . |
| 42 | All four still look as though they 'd be more comfortable in jail than in a rhinestone suit , while their voices remain wonderfully battered instruments — weathered , stoic and yet still full of yearning . |
| 43 | Within the Cortes the strength of the liberals lay in their eloquent leadership — the ‘ divine ’ Argüelles ; Torrero , the radical priest ; Toreno , an Asturian aristocrat and historian of the Revolution — rather than in a party organization . |
| 44 | For instance , a nationwide rise in fertility rate would produce a much larger increase in the number of births in a recently developed new town with an above-average proportion of young couples than in a retirement area with a population of similar size . |
| 45 | Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck have been more likely to be found together on the golf course than on a chat show in recent times . |
| 46 | Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck have been more likely to be found together on the golf course than on a chat show in recent times . |
| 47 | Bruce Forsyth and Jimmy Tarbuck have been more likely to be found together on the golf course than on a chat show in recent times . |
| 48 | when you start learning a language you are constantly collecting new words , so even if you have a computer and intend to use it for producing a dictionary you may still wish to have your vocabulary in a more accessible form than on a computer disk , at least for the first few months . |
| 49 | For instance , on a fast slalom type board , with only a little tail lift , the foot will have to be placed further back than on a wave board where the rocker line resembles a banana . |
| 50 | Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey . |
| 51 | How a contract could be agreed for , say , general medicine , other than on a population basis is difficult to envisage . |
| 52 | Yes , she would go into the country rather than to a seaside resort , for they were full of old , retired , ill-tempered people and had she not had her full share of that ? |
| 53 | However in my written statement , I have suggested that certain of the criteria are going to be more appropriate to a local plan rather than to a structure plan . |
| 54 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 55 | If you do not like what happens at a school , you should discuss it with the headmaster , but bear in mind that teachers at a boarding school are acting much more in loco parentis than at a day school and may feel that very firm action is essential . |
| 56 | ‘ There was another row at Newmarket last year when Sheikh Mohammed bought In The Groove privately rather than at a Tattersalls auction . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ My name is Captain Trentham , ’ the man informed the expectant band of untrained warriors , in an accent that Charlie suspected would have sounded more in place in Mayfair than at a railway station in Scotland . |
| 58 | Being at the start of a slimming programme , rather than at a midway stage . |
| 59 | Arrest elsewhere than at a police station |
| 60 | The noise is louder than at a dog track . |