Example sentences of "than they are at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even presented in outline like that , it is reasonably clear that under green regimes Europeans would , by any conventional standards , become a great deal poorer than they are at the moment . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , there is no reason why economists should be any better at predicting that date than they are at predicting currencies . |
| 3 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 4 | prisoners whose character and record render them suitable … should be released from prison earlier than they are at present . |
| 5 | At low river flows the effects of pollution are greater than they are at high flows , and , if there is any contamination that is likely to affect textile processing , this will show up more in samples taken at such times . |
| 6 | [ I ] n the case of Britain and Israel , two countries without codified constitutions , such pressure as exists to adopt one is based less on the desire to possess a clear-cut organisational chart delimiting the institutions of government than on a feeling that rights would be better protected under a codified constitution than they are at present . |
| 7 | If ‘ community care ’ is not to result in increased impoverishment and dependency for women care-givers ( with all the possible long-term adverse consequences for their own old age ) , then employment and social security policies and the provision of ‘ community care ’ services have to be integrated to a far greater extent than they are at present . |
| 8 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |