Example sentences of "greater than [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 2 | This has indeed usually been the case : for instance , in ancient Greece where the value of a silver coin was generally 5 per cent greater than an equivalent weight of silver ( to cover costs of minting and profit to the mint ) . |
| 3 | For the criticality to occur at an angle of incidence less than 90° , the shear velocity in the solid must be greater than the dilatational velocity in the coupling liquid . |
| 4 | • Continuing Group pre-tax profit up by 30 per cent to £1.71 billion , greater than the pre-tax profit for the entire Group in 1988 . |
| 5 | It has been found in concentrations over 40 times greater than the standard set by the European Community . |
| 6 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 7 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 8 | This relationship is n't just common to product relationships it 's the same in cost revenue relationships as well Okay , so so what that diagram is saying in symbolic terms is that if the slope of the ideal product of labour curve , right , if D L P D A P L by D L positive , then the marginal product of labour must be greater than the average product of labour . |
| 9 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 10 | In 1988 , the average size of transactions where other EC companies took over UK companies was 2.5 times greater than the average value of transactions where UK companies acquired other EC companies . |
| 11 | Further the average score of 57.9 for the degree results of the non-standard entry mature students was significantly greater than the average score of 50 for all students . |
| 12 | It was used as a categorical variable whenever the definition of abnormal values — that is , greater than the upper limit of normality — was necessary to calculate sensitivity , specificity , and predictive values . |
| 13 | Some people from both the Libyan Jewish and Slovakian foci of inherited prion disease have been found to carry the mutation at codon 200 and yet remain unaffected at ages similar to or greater than the upper age at onset in most affected relatives.Such incomplete penetrance has not been reported in other types of inherited prion disease . |
| 14 | In the first case , profits depend on having annual incomes which exceed annual out goings ; in the second , the price must be greater than the total cost of production inputs ( see Ambrose , 1986 : 4 ) . |
| 15 | Figure 7.9 shows the membership figures issued in 1988 by the main teaching unions ; the total membership of all eight is greater than the total number of teachers ( Education Guardian , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ In one cubic centimetre of empty space the amount of energy is much greater than the total amount of energy of all matter in the known universe . ’ |
| 17 | The peeled-off clothes lie in a tumbled pile , and — at a velocity far greater than the usual speed of a naked mortal 's shy and shivering run — I convey her into the water , and out of the shallows . |
| 18 | In each site in both series , the mean age of the women was greater than the mean age of the men . |
| 19 | No European computer company ranked among the world ‘ top ten ’ in 1986 ; and IBM 's turnover was greater than the aggregate turnover of the next g companies . |
| 20 | Therefore , the forward movement at the top of the orbit is greater than the reverse movement at the bottom . |
| 21 | This may well be greater than the actual amount of data in the file , but it is the amount of space allocated to the file by the Z88 's operating system . |
| 22 | An increase in exports would be particularly beneficial in that the balance of payments would improve and at the same time national income will rise by an amount greater than the initial increase in exports . |
| 23 | It indicates that PTR# is greater than the recorded length of the file ( found by using EXT# ) . |
| 24 | It can be shown that electrons and ions co-rotating at distances from Jupiter greater than the Keplerian orbit of co-rotation ( section 6.1.1 ) tend to move away from the planet . |
| 25 | Or , it may be said , two events are cause and effect if the conditional probability of the second-its probability conditional on the occurrence of the first-is greater than the unconditional probability of the second , which is a probability independent of whether the first occurs . |
| 26 | In these circumstances it is tempting to look at incorporation so that each partner 's ‘ take ’ from the business in the form of salary is limited to an amount that avoids tax being paid at any rate greater than the basic rate of 25% . |
| 27 | If you make PAGE less than its original value or greater than the original value of HIMEM , you will get a " Bad program " error when you try to enter a program line and you may well crash BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 28 | It looked huge — far greater than the empty space between the foundations of the towers suggested . |
| 29 | Among men with periodontitis the relative risk of death from coronary heart disease ( 2.86 ) was greater than the relative risk of being admitted to hospital for coronary heart disease ( 1.58 ) . |
| 30 | Only pressure waves greater than the respiratory swing at that level were taken into account . |