Example sentences of "than [pron] [was/were] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 2 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 3 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 4 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 5 | Remember , if you get a mild reaction , you will need to proceed with caution until you can tell whether that food or food group is causing you to feel less well or less able to lose weight than you were at the end of Stage I. |
| 6 | Except Tim 's a bit older than you were at the time . |
| 7 | But we also need the broad generalizations that help show whether we are closer to meeting the basic needs of all the world 's people than we were at the start of the 1970s . |
| 8 | ‘ It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition . |
| 9 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 10 | With the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds at 8.25% and that on three-month bills at 6.6% , long- and short-term interest rates are now lower than they were at the end of the two previous deep recessions , in 1981 and 1973 . |
| 11 | As the campaign enters the final furlong the Tories in the campaign team know they are no closer to finding a magic formula than they were at the outset . |
| 12 | Although incomes in the 1980s were substantially higher in real terms than they were at the end of the 1950s , there has been no sustained decrease in inequality ; in fact , as we saw in chapter 5 ( figure 5.5 ) , income inequality in Britain increased sharply after 1976 . |
| 13 | The shorter estimate comes from one or two ‘ optimists ’ within the electricity supply industry who believe that the opponents to the plans to build the Sizewell PWR will prove less persistent than they were at the inquiry into the plans to expand the nuclear fuel plant at Windscale in Cumbria . |
| 14 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 15 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |
| 16 | Moreover , although their constitutional and political position depended on their new relationship to " the people " they were not instructed delegates of their constituents any more than they were at the mercy of the party whips in the Commons . |
| 17 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 18 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 19 | This still means that the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes is now 50% higher than it was at the start of 1991 . |
| 20 | We experienced the operation of a principle widely applicable and perhaps more generally recognised now than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 21 | Teacher education is a smaller scale enterprise than it was at the time of the events I have recorded . |
| 22 | Yet at the same time — here is the Red Queen effect again — there is no general reason for expecting either side in the arms race to be any more successful at doing its job than it was at the beginning of the arms race . |
| 23 | The mathematics curriculum is much broader now than it was at the time of the 11+ . |
| 24 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 25 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in many parts of the Yorkshire and Humberside region unemployment is significantly lower than it was at the time of the previous election , and that what the regional CBI fears above all else is the havoc that would be caused by a Labour Government , with their commitment to a statutory minimum wage , which would wipe out so many jobs , and to the European Community social chapter , which would make British industry uncompetitive in world terms ? |
| 26 | UK consumption is around a third lower than it was at the beginning of this century . |
| 27 | Moreover , capacity utilization was considerably lower when the previous upswing had begun than it was at the start of the mini-boom of 1972–3 . |
| 28 | Hill-Wood remains philosphical about the club 's disappointing run — ‘ you have good spells and bad spells ’ — and is certainly more optimistic about the club 's chances of winning major honours this season than he was at a similar stage last year . |