Example sentences of "than among " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 2 | It has , however , been contained by an environment in which President Nyerere 's political leadership promoted a strong national ideology , and in which , for reasons which lie in Tanzania 's nineteenth-century history ( including both the replacement of traditional authority by trader barons and the unity achieved among some peoples in resisting German colonialism ) localism has been much less strong than among many African peoples . |
| 3 | In fact , you can not find more conformity than among young people . |
| 4 | This is much commoner among men than among women , ’ wrote one of the best-known counsellors , J. H. Wallis , in Marriage Observed . |
| 5 | Morale among the Party faithful declined more slowly than among the rest of the population . |
| 6 | In such ways , the Führer image functioned , in integrating the potentially disintegrative forces within the Nazi Movement on a different plane among the Party ‘ faithful ’ than among the broad mass of ‘ non-organized ’ Germans , in mobilizing the boundless energy and misplaced idealism of the fanatics and activists through orientation towards long-term ‘ cosmic ’ and ‘ utopian ’ goals , and through offering legitimation for action undertaken against ideological and racial ‘ enemies of the State ’ . |
| 7 | Opinion among ordinary teachers is moving faster than among the trade union professionals or NUT militants . |
| 8 | Even more significant was the finding that , within North Uist , cases of depression were four times more frequent among women who lived in council houses than among those who followed the traditional crofting pattern on the land . |
| 9 | Throat infection is more common among females who practice oral sex than among men , because the female 's mouth is in direct contact with the infected part ( the tip of the penis ) whereas the male is in contact with an area not infected of its own right ( the clitoris and vulva ) . |
| 10 | Obviously the symptoms may actually be due to an infection of the bladder — such infections are certainly more common among women who are sexually active than among those who are not — and the symptoms may be due , if not to a sexually transmitted disease , to other minor infections such as thrush ; but in many cases no bacteriological offender is found to account for the symptoms . |
| 11 | His view was that he was more likely to find unrecognised talent among women than among men . |
| 12 | And nowhere is this problem more dearly seen than among our children . |
| 13 | Sure enough , the effect of age on preparedness to break the law is larger ( +0.250 ) among those with low education than among those who stayed on at school or college beyond 15 ( 0.143 ) . |
| 14 | She found more deaths among sexually mature females than among males , which gave a skew in the latter 's favour . |
| 15 | The idea originated with the observation that it was more common among those with coeliac disease than among the population at large . |
| 16 | It would be a pity if reading replaced talking and writing — that is the fate of the ‘ book-worm ’ , the person who is happier and safer among books than among people . |
| 17 | And whilst it is impossible to state categorically that heart disease can be caused by eating too much fat , in recent investigations it was observed that among the groups of people who consumed high amounts of fat the incidence of heart attack was far higher than among those who followed a low fat diet . |
| 18 | The fact that acts of violence , aggression , or even boastfulness ( buagun ) are consistently condemned , and the lack of any positive evaluation of acts of ‘ bravery ’ or ‘ courage ’ , may result in a lower rate of deliberate maiming and homicide among the Buid than among populations which attach positive evaluations to such acts ( everything else being equal ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Leavis demands moral earnestness : I prefer morality , ’ he once told Kingsley Amis in a characteristically Johnsonian antithesis , adding that he would sooner live among people who did not cheat at cards than among the sort who are earnest about not cheating . |
| 20 | One or two surveys revealed better health and a greater degree of satisfaction among the occupied over pension age than among the retired ( Anderson and Cowan 1955 ; We ! ford 1966 ) , and the high death-rate in the first year following cessation of work was often quoted to prove that retirement might speed premature deterioration . |
| 21 | Kane 's first category of race-linked physical and physiological characteristics , then , is in doubt from the start but he delineates them as follows : proportionately longer leg lengths , narrower hips , wider calf bones and greater arm circumference among black athletes than among whites ; a greater ratio of tendon to muscle among blacks , giving rise to the condition typically termed double-jointedness , a relatively dense bone structure ; a basically elongated body structure among black athletes , enabling them to function as more efficient heat dissipators relative to whites ( 1971 , pp.74–5 ) . |
| 22 | In species where successful males can monopolize breeding access to large numbers of females but similar numbers of males and females are recruited , direct competition between males is likely to be intense , aggressive interactions may be frequent and the selective advantages of possessing traits that affect success in combat may be higher among males than among females . |
| 23 | Variation in reproductive success should be greater among males of polygynous species than among males of monogamous ones . |
| 24 | Direct competition for mates will be more intense among males of polygynous species than among males of monogamous ones . |
| 25 | The multifactorial model tended to fit better when an intergenerational difference was included ( Z estimated at 0.05 , corresponding to a much lower heritability among parents ( ZH ) than among offspring ( H ) ) , but it was not significantly better ( χ 2 =3.28 , p=0.075 ) . |
| 26 | THERE is , alas , more unanimity among the 51 Bosnian Serb politicians who rejected the Vance-Owen peace plan than among the four permanent members of the UN Security Council who are involved in the Bosnian conflict — America , Britain , France and Russia . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that Lombroso 's stigmata turned out to be no more common among criminals than among any other section of the community ( see Wolfgang , 1960 ) , although often thought to be a refutation of his theory , is in fact not crucial to it . |
| 28 | In the Sunday market the quality — popular division became even sharper than among the dailies when the qualities turned themselves into large scale Sunday magazines . |
| 29 | Although under-assessment was nowhere more flagrant than among rich Londoners , it was always possible for a fortune to be wiped out by an unsuccessful business venture , as in the case of Alderman Aylmer , draper , who was assessed at £40 net , his debts paid' , when others of this rank were normally worth a thousand or more . |
| 30 | Many of these predisposing factors are observed more often among drug users than among homosexual men . |