Example sentences of "than at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice how some of the words when repeated are better spoken than at other times , according to the level of passion in the delivery . |
| 2 | This is particularly true today : even in the recession-hit 1990s , brewers are spending increasing amounts on pub refurbishment — more on pubs , indeed , than at any time since the 1930s . |
| 3 | The rudder will certainly be overbalanced and it will require far more force to apply the full opposite rudder than at any other time in flight . |
| 4 | It was paradoxical because although the subject was very deeply asleep , being completely relaxed and more difficult to wake than at any other time during the night , the EEG pattern was that of alert wakefulness . |
| 5 | I gave them money , full of pride that I was richer than at least one English person , even if he was a beggar . |
| 6 | One theory is there should be Sydney , a week earlier than at present , leading into the Australian Open , the Stella Artois Championships as the traditional prelude to Wimbledon , plus Cincinnati and Indianapolis on the way into the U.S. Open . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 9 | Personal memories : of the larger knots of passengers at reopened Templecombe than at most other stations between Exeter and Salisbury , a route far busier and better served than ten years ago ; but of travelling from Southampton to Newton Abbot via Westbury having dinner with a traveller from London to Crewkerne , the common Westbury-Taunton section way north of both passengers ' direct line being attractive because of the faster pace of HSTs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When that day arrives , in the not-too-distant future , Beerling says listeners to the radio will find themselves ‘ better-served by their equipment than at any time since the wireless was first invented by Marconi in 1895 ’ . |
| 12 | But their patron , though ensconced in the Prime Minister 's palace , is clearly more estranged from the mainstream of Catholic politics than at any time in his 40-year career . |
| 13 | The odd policy to put the stage in the middle of the room rather than at one end leads to a diminishing of the atmosphere ( the corners are seldom filled ) . |
| 14 | These include : Proposed revisions to market hours in order to make official dealing times , mandatory quote periods and Seaq dealing times overlap more closely than at present . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There remain doubts about Mason 's stamina but encouraged by greater attention since Bruno 's career was put on hold , he is fitter than at any other time in his career and is undoubtably the heavier puncher . |
| 18 | Opinion polls now show that employers are blamed for Britain 's economic problems and union are more popular than at any time in their history . |
| 19 | Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present . |
| 20 | Apart from any other considerations , it was , in fact , during Margaret Thatcher 's period as Education Secretary ( 1970-74 ) that more schools became comprehensive than at any other time either before or since . |
| 21 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 22 | His obligatory attendance of the 40th birthday party of East Germany has helped to leave that self-advertised ‘ pillar of European stability ’ and ‘ trustiest of friends of the Soviet Union ’ looking more unstable than at any time since the Red Army moved in to suppress the uprising of 17 June 1953 . |
| 23 | They are forces which are spreading wealth faster than at any time in human history and in one 's political approach I think you either are an enthusiast anxious to embrace the forces that are at work or you are a sceptic , perhaps inclined to resist them , hoping that you can frustrate them . |
| 24 | Sheila Payne suggests a number of reasons for this : the side effects of the drugs become more distressing ; patients are aware that they will have to go through further courses of similar treatment and feel gloomy at the prospect ; and they receive less support from health professionals than at the start . |
| 25 | A curfew imposed by the government is still in effect , although it seems directed more at confining soldiers and policemen to their barracks than at keeping civilians off the streets . |
| 26 | Training for the new season began on 20 June , earlier than at many professional clubs , and even more astoundingly among amateurs , Dennis 's players renounce mid-week alcohol . |
| 27 | Similarly the production area at the Saarlouis plant in Germany , another single-model plant , is 10 per cent bigger than at Dagenham . |
| 28 | Nearly 7,000 different parts flood into Dagenham for assembly of the Sierra and Fiesta — 50 per cent more than at Halewood or Saarlouis . |
| 29 | The speech-writing team , locked away in a suite at the Imperial Hotel , are said to have made faster progress this year than at previous conferences , despite the need to do some hefty redrafting to echo the Chancellor 's assurances on the economy . |
| 30 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |