Example sentences of "than [prep] other [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are more stories about immigration and the alleged evasion of immigration control than about other aspects of race relations , with the possible exception of the recent riots which the media often interpret as caused by ‘ racial ’ tension . |
| 2 | An even bigger problem for Germany than for other countries |
| 3 | The light , strongly-bonded carbon atoms can vibrate at unusually high frequencies , so the frequency of the radiation absorbed is very much higher for diamond than for other materials . |
| 4 | As we have already seen , it is more difficult to agree a common vision for the development of mental health services than for other services because of the differing philosophies with which people approach individuals ' rights to refuse treatment and to take personal risks . |
| 5 | Although social workers were trained in dealing with stress , said Mr Gower , the whole subject of removing children from their parents was no less emotive for them than for other members of the community . |
| 6 | The Matchplay 's unique ‘ needlepunch ’ construction gives surface texture which , claims Anglian and Midland , makes sand infilling much easier than for other products . |
| 7 | Similarly , the approach angle is a lot shallower than for other jets — about two degrees , judged by the PAPIs showing three reds and a pink . |
| 8 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 9 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 10 | In these cases the degree course requirements will be higher than for other courses . |
| 11 | The ordering of YAC probes was harder than for other probes types in that the highly variable length of the YACs meant that some YACs were contained entirely within others , and some YACs were chimeric , requiring some manual adjustment of the order . |
| 12 | It is , however , generally known that many trade unions choose the winter months for strikes because they can exert more pressure on employers than during other periods of the year and not so much because their members can claim tax rebates . |
| 13 | Interrogatories and document requests are staples of international commercial litigation , no less than of other suits , yet a rule of exclusivity would subordinate the court 's supervision of even the most routine of these pre-trial proceedings to the actions or , equally , to the inactions of foreign judicial authorities . |
| 14 | Not only were there more of them than of other groups living in poverty or on the margins of poverty ; more had no assets or virtually no assets , and fewer possessed substantial amounts of assets … |
| 15 | It is more difficult to obtain a conviction under section 14 than under other sections of the Act because the prosecution must show that the defendant either knew the statement to be false or made it recklessly , i.e. regardless of whether it was true or false . |
| 16 | The Navigation Acts were complicated and applying the regulations would have been harder if there had been a great deal of trade between the colonies , but in the seventeenth century most of the trade of each colony on the American mainland or in the West Indies was with England rather than with other colonies . |
| 17 | As coding with the Read codes can be more detailed than with other codes it will be more prone to error and may take longer . |
| 18 | Working people probably spend more time in the company of their workmates than with their marriage partners , and almost certainly more than with other friends and relatives . |
| 19 | I have deliberately not covered problems involving canine aggression in previous True Case Histories because diagnosis and treatment tends to be more difficult than with other problems . |
| 20 | Novels , for instance , have less in common with lyric poetry than with other forms of extended narrative , such as historiography , biography , autobiography — a genre of which there have been some interesting studies lately — or even some kinds of essay . |
| 21 | Going to the cinema in the 1940s and 1950s , for example , was an important part of courtship among young people : it had more in common with other courtship rituals than with other forms of media use , such as reading the paper . |
| 22 | However , this benefit must be weighed against the higher rates of haemorrhage associated with intravenous heparin as well as the higher rates of stroke with tPA than with other thrombolytics . |
| 23 | ‘ Actors say working with me is far more exhausting than with other directors , ’ he says , grinning . |
| 24 | I ca n't say I found adhesion up or down any better than with other boots . |
| 25 | The settlement of the Alans near Valence may have more in common with imperial attempts to solve the problem of abandoned land , agri deserti , than with other grants to the barbarians . |
| 26 | This occurs primarily with alcohol rather than with other drugs . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the significance of ASW consultation with male relatives , and a tendency to examine social factors which may have challenged GP definitions less than with other referrals are rather less positive . |
| 28 | their linguistic variation is typically greater than with other dialects of English . |
| 29 | Observers have commented that he is less tolerant and sympathetic when dealing with them than with other colleagues or outsiders . |
| 30 | Research into crime is likely to take comparatively longer than into other areas of social behaviour . |