Example sentences of "there than " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was altogether more interested , on the surface at any rate , in what he found there than in what he could observe of people and events around him . |
| 2 | Half-timbering is Cheshire 's speciality , after all — what better examples in the country are there than Handforth , Henbury and the spectacularly lavish Hill Bark , built in 1894 ( at a cost of £150,000 ) and moved lock , stock and barrel in 1929 to a site five miles away in order to avoid the view of encroaching development ! |
| 3 | IT IS a beguiling place , Japan : no sooner have westerners worked out how things work there than the country slips from their grasp . |
| 4 | And 11 of the 12 biggest OECD countries sell more in America through foreign subsidiaries based there than through exports . |
| 5 | No sooner were they there than Gloria announced , ‘ We ca n't stay down here any more . |
| 6 | ‘ He may be safer there than some of us here . ’ |
| 7 | Certainly the symbolism of the pineapple is immensely more potent there than in Britain . |
| 8 | No stranger honeymooners could have gathered there than the gangs of parliament members — 67 of them — who were ferried down to the Bekaa in Syrian helicopters and armoured limousines , guarded by squads of bodyguards armed with anti-tank rockets . |
| 9 | He 's a fine big man , they tell me , Lachlan Cattanach , and more fitted to control that hellcat down the stair there than young Hector . |
| 10 | Do those who invade Fort-de-France believe that they will be better off there than here , should the earth begin to quake ? |
| 11 | It is said that more pigs are reared there than there are people in the entire country . |
| 12 | This comprises a small number of true wasteland species , commoner there than in other habitats . |
| 13 | I mention it because general public awareness of accidental poisoning seems higher there than in this country . |
| 14 | ‘ The forest is never safe , ’ Simon answered , ‘ but she will be safer there than elsewhere . |
| 15 | There was greater contentment there than within the average hostel or foster home and most certainly a greater sense of personal fulfilment . |
| 16 | Matters of privilege are raised more rarely there than in the Commons . |
| 17 | Since aspects of each can be understood better in the light of their absence , each may be noticed more when it is not there than when it is . |
| 18 | It was not unknown for men to become peculiar , or even on occasion completely to lose their reason , in the vast spaces of Masailand , but there is no evidence that this was more likely to happen there than in other lonely postings . |
| 19 | I should think there 's more folks live there than there is in t'village . ’ |
| 20 | Avgas works out at abut twenty per cent cheaper there than the UK , but at around 34 litres per hour for a C172 or a AA5 , that accounts for only some £4 of the differential . |
| 21 | Second-hand aircraft are perhaps slightly cheaper to buy there than her , but not all that much , and the interest charged for finance is currently higher there than here . |
| 22 | Second-hand aircraft are perhaps slightly cheaper to buy there than her , but not all that much , and the interest charged for finance is currently higher there than here . |
| 23 | ‘ Would he be safer there than here with his own mother ? |
| 24 | Malawi has kept a public corporation , and yet there has probably been more direct interference by the government in broadcasting there than in Zambia . |
| 25 | After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils . |
| 26 | Apart from the symphonies , Mozart 's compositions of 1788 include the Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , written in February ( it is not known if Mozart ever played it in public ) ; several new numbers for the Vienna première of Don Giovanni in May ( despite starring Caterina Cavalieri as Donna Elvira and Aloysia Lange as Donna Anna , the opera was even less successful there than Figaro , having only 15 further performances ) ; three piano trios written for Puchberg ; a piano sonata , and a quantity of light vocal music . |
| 27 | He declared that ‘ discipline , order , morality and civilisation are on a higher level out there than in China ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Hardly had I arrived there than I was called back to entertain Princess Margaret , who was paying a visit to the studio , ’ recalls executive producer Peter . |
| 29 | America 's a nice place to live ; I have more friends over there than I do here and basically , as far as I 'm concerned , nations do not exist ; they are a place where you have friends , that 's all . |
| 30 | Half the world 's particle physicists are involved in its work ; there are more Americans working there than there are physicists from any other country . |