Example sentences of "than [noun] at the " 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 | erm What I 've I 've had a look at their team on paper , and erm they 're not strong enough and erm you know , they need more than Marvin at the moment ; they need two or three good blokes , they 're a bit too sort of erm balanced really , you know , they have n't got any big fire power , so erm you know , I think they 're in a bit of a spot down there , even though they probably think they 're not . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 5 | Diplomats expressed no more than disappointment at the lack of progress ( but that 's why they are diplomats ) . |
| 6 | You 've got more teeth than Christopher at the moment have n't you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perhaps erm pressure coming from local communities and ordinary people , rather than theologians at the top , and pressure released in order to allow for greater freedom , variety , flexibility , more open approach to other Christians and other religions , and to try to get rid of some of the obstacles that the past seems to place in our way . |
| 9 | This is the moment that the group , believed to be a family , helped themselves to jewellery worth more than £3,000 at the Hatton House Jewellers in Bletchley . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Boardwalk bounded along with more enthusiasm than grace at the head of the second group while two horses , including the favourite , made the running some three lengths clear of her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Guido paused for an instant , then added , smiling , ‘ I expect that 's why your personal monetary situation is rather more loss than profit at the moment — because you invest so much of your time in romance ? ’ |
| 14 | Scientific correspondents of the UK press expressed surprise rather than incredulity at the Argentine claims . |
| 15 | It was supposed to be work experience , but I did n't do much work other than stare at the test card , and this was a pretty boring experience . |
| 16 | We ca n't afford more than food at the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic , ’ he said later . |
| 18 | ‘ T is safer for a woman than Winchester at the moment . ’ |
| 19 | The ‘ flak helpers ’ had been little more than children at the time of Hitler 's great ‘ triumphs ’ , and in the hail of bombs , the destruction , and the retreating armies , the remaining image of the Führer as the military genius bore scant relation to their daily experience of reality . |
| 20 | It might be thought that the present generation of ‘ younger ’ retired women have , by virtue of improved access to occupational pension benefits , greatly reduced their risk of poverty in old age , which for women officially begins five years earlier than men at the ‘ pensionable age ’ of 60 . |
| 21 | On the other , a research report commissioned by the Lord Chancellor 's Department was critical of the quality of service provided by duty solicitors , with a high proportion relying on telephoned advice rather than attendance at the police station . |
| 22 | Except to some extent in the Habsburg territories , the men who gained a knowledge of them were destined to remain translators , interpreters or at most consuls , auxiliaries rather than actors at the centre of the diplomatic stage . |
| 23 | Newcastle were actually shorter odds than Leeds at the start of the season , which was equally ridiculous . |
| 24 | I knew that there is no death worse for an eagle than death at the beaks of hooded crows . |
| 25 | We play dominoes more than cards at the minute though |