Example sentences of "than [noun pl] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We play dominoes more than cards at the minute though |