Example sentences of "[adj] than the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new grassland is less environmentally interesting than the previous permanent pasture , and the money wasted on the whole ten-year cycle of grass-grain-grass has been very considerable . |
| 2 | The present scheme has , in recent years , been made substantially more generous than the previous one . |
| 3 | While sales revenues dropped to IR£273.6 million ( 1991 : IR£292.1 million ) , overall volume substantially held up , a creditable performance in a year when most of the Group 's major markets were in recession Financing costs at IR£7.7 million ( 1991 : IR£6.5 million ) reflect higher average debt over the period The taxation charge at IR£2 million was lower than the previous year due to lower profits in high tax jurisdictions . |
| 4 | The 1991 budget was adopted by the National Assembly on Dec , 22 , 1990 ; amounting to 106,000 million francs CFA and substantially lower than the previous one , it was the first to correspond strictly to the 12-month calendar year , previous ones being based on a 15-month period . |
| 5 | Defence spending was planned to rise by 5.1 per cent , the lowest percentage rise since 1960 , and a whole percentage point lower than the previous year 's increase . |
| 6 | Recorded crime fell in eight police force areas the rate of increase in violent crime was significantly lower than the previous year and the rise in reported thefts was the smallest for four years . |
| 7 | Yellow metal spent the majority of this 12 month period locked in a narrow range between $329 and $352 and the average of $338 was $19 lower than the previous year . |
| 8 | This group included 51 patients , with a mean age of 10 years significantly lower than the previous two groups ( p<0.004 ) , the M:F ratio was 1.2:1.0 . |
| 9 | In Spain , conditions have been extremely difficult with the beer market in significant decline due to economic circumstances ; as a result volumes overall were lower than the previous year . |
| 10 | The group predicted the poor trading conditions would continue with full-year profits in the division likely to be significantly lower than the previous year . |
| 11 | At breakfast time the general atmosphere among the residents was still subdued , but much less strained than the previous evening . |
| 12 | Even so , this was less overall than the previous bests of 1914 and 1939 . |
| 13 | Thus the physical , biological or social can all be apprehended or known as images , things , hypothetical ideas or real ideas , with each level of knowing more real than the previous one . |
| 14 | This result is marginally bigger than the previous traditional estimate of 11p . |
| 15 | Heavier than the previous two rock types , they 'd make superb caverns along with some slate . |
| 16 | She was back within three quarters of an hour in a suit that was , as one dealer pointed out , hardly more business-like than the previous one . |
| 17 | This Caxton Hall meeting was more serious than the previous one . |
| 18 | Now his attention was focussed on why the tower had bent and his second effort not only bent as before but was even taller than the previous tower . |
| 19 | Asserting that the situation had improved since 1990 and that the Serrano government was more highly motivated than the previous administration in promoting respect for human right and bringing the perpetrators of abuses to justice , the report pointed out that the army still failed to co-operate with the police and the judiciary in prosecuting army personnel . |
| 20 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 21 | The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great . |
| 22 | The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great . |
| 23 | The contours begin at 0.125K and increase logarithmically , each step being a factor of 2 larger than the previous one . |
| 24 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 25 | Despite the general chaos , this visit was much more relaxed than the previous one . |
| 26 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 27 | The world complained about Adobe 's restrictions but all the major typesetter vendors realised that a single well defined and maintained standard was better than the previous chaos and so adopted Adobe 's PostScript . |
| 28 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 29 | This way of seeing the development of databases can be misleading because it should not be implied that either each new generation will replace the previous generation ( all these systems will be used for some foreseeable time in the future ) or that each new generation is necessarily better than the previous one ( the appropriateness or otherwise of an approach will depend on the organisation and its applications ) . |
| 30 | By all accounts Saturday 's display ( it was not desertion of the cause but prior engagements which made it impossible to be there ) from the mighty Quakers was slightly better than the previous innocuous effort . |