Example sentences of "had [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1929 , the National WEA reported that ten of its sixteen Districts had lower branch membership totals than in 1924 , averaging 59% of all enrolled students , which represented a decline of at least 20% on the 1924 figure . |
| 2 | Those in social class IV and V had lower birth weight , head circumference , and ponderal index . |
| 3 | The other communities studied all had lower death rates , and hence this ‘ number needed to treat ’ would be higher . |
| 4 | In a national survey , ‘ forward planners ’ in all classes had lower fertility ( and family size clustered more tightly around an average of two children ) , and were more likely to use effective methods of contraception . |
| 5 | This work was in some ways inferior to that done in America , where engineers had developed a disc-cutter with better frequency-range and lower distortion , and their pressings had lower surface-noise as well . |
| 6 | In our study women who smoked had lower conception rates , though this did not reach significance . |
| 7 | Much more of this and some nosey neighbour was bound to call local Plod , though from the look of the place Camberwick Green probably had tougher policing . |
| 8 | He veered higher over another kind of wood whose trees he did not know but which had lighter bark and were higher . |
| 9 | Those without hiatus hernias had heavier smoking histories overall ( median 26 pack years ) than those with hiatus hernias ( median 9 pack years ) ( p<0.002 ) ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 10 | The babies born after term had larger head size , which was also associated with higher rates of disease other than cardiovascular disease . |
| 11 | However , fertility was higher where areas had high Irish or Roman Catholic populations ( Teitelbaum 1984 ) ; some parts of Wales , the Highlands of Scotland , and Ulster had later fertility declines ( the rest of Ireland much later ) and Wales and Scotland also retained distinctive marriage patterns . |
| 12 | Last week Sunday Life revealed that the RUC had better intelligence on the UVF than on the UDA/UFF , intercepting up to six UVF teams compared to only one UFF unit this year . |
| 13 | The XT came from the middle of the word ‘ extra ’ , which was meant to imply that this new model had better expansion capabilities than the PC . |
| 14 | He had better luck when sending a cablegram to the American President who replied , ‘ The President deeply appreciates the friendly sentiment expressed by you on behalf of the influential body which you represent . ’ |
| 15 | They had better luck with Fawaz Younis . |
| 16 | I warrant that your mama may be wondering where we have got to , we had better enbus for Saltdean . |
| 17 | The day was overcast and it was becoming difficult to see what he was typing , so , about noon , when imagination began to fail him , he walked up to the house to inquire from Dorothy whether Isobel would mind if he had better lighting installed in the garage , provided he paid far it . |
| 18 | The study involved the writing down of English glosses for the signs , and the fact that deaf people had poorer recall overall may result from this cross-modal task . |
| 19 | ‘ Those who had a breakfast drink had faster recall than those who had nothing , ’ he says . |
| 20 | The boys very consistently had higher success rates in items involving anything to do with measures : estimating , measuring or calculating lengths , time intervals etc . |
| 21 | Labour 's Gordon Brown said Britain still had higher inflation than its main competitors . |
| 22 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown said Britain still had higher inflation than Germany , Japan , France and the US . |
| 23 | ‘ And point out to the union that the comparable grade in local government already had higher pay and a thirty-five hour week ? ’ |
| 24 | Kangas-Saarela et al found that babies whose mothers had received epidural analgesia with bupivacaine had higher neurobehavioural scores than those whose mothers had not received such analgesia . |
| 25 | The successful LBOs in my study , as a group , had higher debt levels at the time of the buyout than those that later failed . |
| 26 | The same subjects when rested had higher voltage CNVs before fast responses than slow ones . |
| 27 | Ziboh et al ( 1979 ) also found that diabetics with complications had higher platelet thromboxane generation than diabetics without complications . |
| 28 | The fittest in British society should therefore have been the lower class and the immigrant , both of whom had higher birth rates than the upper classes . |
| 29 | H pylori infected subjects had higher gastrin values than uninfected subjects , overall ( 55.3 ( 5.9 ) ; 36.0 ( 1.8 ) pmol/l ; p<0.001 ) and in subjects without atrophy ( 45.3 ( 4.2 ) ; 36.0 ( 1.8 ) pmol/l ; p<0.03 ) . |
| 30 | H pylori infected subjects ( young and old ) had higher serum gastrin concentrations on average than uninfected subjects . |