Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] high [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs . |
| 2 | However , with experience of rather higher levels of use an asphalt surface has now been added to reduce annual maintenance costs . |
| 3 | One of the main reasons for this is the need to maintain the quality of the front-line services to the membership in the face of much higher volumes of telephone and fax traffic . |
| 4 | Figure 2.4 offers a broad international comparison which highlights the consequences of much higher levels of capital equipment per worker in large Japanese firms for the size of the productivity gap . |
| 5 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |
| 6 | This grew from three to three and a half million by 1981 and was created by a combination of net immigration , earlier and more frequent marriage , and the maintenance of relatively high levels of childbirth . |
| 7 | With NCp7D , which does not form a stable complex with DNA , only a very minor fraction of the DNA was present in high molecular weight complexes , even in the presence of relatively high levels of protein . |
| 8 | The atmospheric ‘ ozone layer ’ is a layer of relatively high concentration of ozone ( O 3 ) located in the stratosphere . |
| 9 | Despite relatively high levels of pay , there remains a shortage of trained teachers . |
| 10 | Because a decline in the value of the pound against that of other currencies would aggravate the condition , the Government is constrained to try to maintain that value ; and to do so by the inducement of very high rates of interest . |
| 11 | Failure to link HLCA payments to a handicap zonation of the UK 's LFA , failure to limit the HLCAs paid per farm and ( until December , 1984 ) payment of very high levels of capital grants , are three important factors in initiating and escalating the nature conservation/agriculture conflict in the UK uplands . |
| 12 | The conjunction of low inflation and low unemployment came as a very pleasant surprise to those Keynesians who had feared that a policy commitment by governments to the goal of full employment would create an environment in which organized labour would press for ever higher levels of money wages . |
| 13 | The findings , reported in the US journal Science , extend previous reports of limited success in immunising monkeys against much higher doses of SIV at the New England regional primate centre in Massachusetts and at the University of California . |
| 14 | In the Highlands , faced with abnormally high rates of suicide , accidental death , alcoholism and heart disease , funds for health would be more than welcome , according to Highland Health Board . |
| 15 | The postwar changes resulted in a prolonged boom , with exceptionally high rates of growth , from 1950 until the early 1970s , in the capitalist countries ( Postan , 1967 ; Maddison , 1982 ) , and similarly rapid growth in Eastern Europe over the same period . |
| 16 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 17 | Several areas with anomalously high levels of trace elements that may indicate the presence of mineralisation are evident in the multielement regional geochemical dataset . |
| 18 | The large demands which the BEA made on the capital market — at first directly in their own capital issues and then indirectly through the Treasury borrowing requirement — attracted criticism that electricity was ‘ crowding out ’ more desirable investment projects with potentially higher rates of return in the private sector . |
| 19 | This criticism is based ( a ) on comparisons with other countries such as West Germany and Japan ( Vittas 1986 ) , where banks play a much larger role in industrial financing ; ( b ) on an assumption that bad industrial performance can be attributed to a lack of finance ; and ( c ) on a certain dissatisfaction with consistently high levels of bank profitability . |
| 20 | The case studies ( Chapter 4 ) , on the basis of which the questionnaire had been developed , had contrasted a school in the more prosperous southern half of the borough with one in the north , an area consisting largely of council estates with relatively high levels of unemployment . |
| 21 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 22 | However , the major objection to high levels of government expenditure seems to have been associated with the need for correspondingly high levels of revenue collection . |
| 23 | As a result , diabetics suffer from very high levels of sugar in their blood . |
| 24 | ‘ It is my job to ensure that the £100 million we spend each day is delivered as cost-effectively as possible to ever higher standards of patient care . ’ |
| 25 | Inevitably , attention has focused on very high levels of capital investment in advanced technology , pioneering innovation and the constant search for new sectors to maintain the rapid rates of industrial growth . |
| 26 | Thus in discouraging industrial development , Derry 's marginal situation results not only in high levels of unemployment but is responsible for relatively high levels of increase in unemployment during periods of national recession . |
| 27 | The counter argument is that investors ought to have known that there was a risk involved , particularly those who put their funds in the Gibraltar fund at suspiciously high rates of interest in order to avoid UK taxation . |
| 28 | ‘ Our findings mean that those who start to smoke in their teenage years will be at particularly high risk of death from tobacco in later life . ’ |
| 29 | The inpatient care of patients recognized as being at very high risk of suicide poses particular difficulties . |
| 30 | expectations of parents for very high standards of performance . |