Example sentences of "the [noun] than at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laboratory tests have shown that the rates of oxygen uptake and amounts of muscle effort that volunteers could develop tend to be greater in the daytime than at the night . |
| 2 | This page and View from City Road , page 33 Pay rises : Two surveys show that pay is rising faster at the top end of the scales than at the bottom . |
| 3 | Write-offs also rose faster at the regionals than at the money-centre banks . |
| 4 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 5 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 6 | However , her warnings are aimed less at the right than at the Communists and their 26 deputies , who would fare badly in an early general election . |
| 7 | The self-financing ratio was no higher in the later years of the period than at the beginning , though , without the pressure from the Ministry , it would no doubt have declined . |
| 8 | The survival of the nationals may seem remarkable , in view of the much greater choice of alternative media at the end of the period than at the beginning , with TV an obvious competitor for the reader 's time and the advertiser 's money . |
| 9 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |
| 10 | This heating is uneven : more by day than at night , and more at the equator than at the poles . |
| 11 | However , the greater solar input at the equator than at the poles would produce greater solar choking at the equator , and this can be shown to aid equator to pole circulation in the Jovian interior , thus distributing solar energy more uniformly and leading to the small equator to pole temperature differences observed in the upper troposphere . |
| 12 | The number of participants varied from evening to evening : attendance was higher at the beginning of the week than at the end . |
| 13 | In it , his recently-prepared chart of the Atlantic Ocean showed that this huge stretch of water was shallower in the centre than at the edges . |
| 14 | Both the P-E Inbucon annual survey of executive salaries , and the much smaller Jonathan Wren city salary survey , confirm that salary increases have been bigger at the top end of business and the City than at the bottom . |
| 15 | ‘ The general expectation in the MoD at that time was that you would get another round of discussions with Argentina at a political level , and that the real difficulties were more likely to occur in the summer than at the time they did . ’ |
| 16 | Er it 's mainly er the change in , in foreign currency debt erm and erm the year end debt er er erm the point is we had rather more dollars at the beginning of the year than at the end of the year erm and erm which , which complicates matters , but if you look at our year end debt in dollar terms th erm there was a thirty nine million pound erm adverse movement year on year as a result of that . |
| 17 | Nay-sayers are more likely to surface in the middle than at the beginning because now the project is more of a threat , more a challenge to their own perceived status . |
| 18 | For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window . |
| 19 | The chair looks better to me if the seat is wider at the front than at the back , but the front of the seat should only be slightly wider than the top of the back . |
| 20 | It 's better to shout at the walls than at the children . ’ |