Example sentences of "than [noun sg] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The call " for a 20 per cent reduction in emissions by 2005 , rather than stabilisation at 1990 levels in 2000 , to which the EC is committed " forms part of a list of 55 environmental measures which the group is calling for the community to implement . |
| 2 | Like others , we saw postprandial gall bladder filling rather than contraction at 45 minutes and four hours after injection . |
| 3 | Rain on holiday — so much wetter , somehow , than rain at other times . |
| 4 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 5 | This suggestion is , unfortunately , no more than speculation at this stage . |
| 6 | Thomas Ferguson at the Boston-based McCormack Institute of Public Policy , contends that US action in the Gulf was motivated more by a desire for economic hegemony , than anger at Iraqi aggression . |
| 7 | Worrying about your problems , which seem larger than life at that time of night , is hard to resist . |
| 8 | Whilst , on the surface , Gusfield 's argument may seem a plausible one , Wallis argues that ‘ there are clearly other grounds for moral indignation than resentment at lost status ’ . |