Example sentences of "[was/were] greater [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such cases the tensions were greater than in the smaller schools . |
| 2 | Both the mean amplitude ( spinal patients 31 ( 1 ) cmH 2 O , controls 15 ( 2 ) cmH 2 O ) and duration ( spinal patients 25 ( 6 ) seconds , controls 8 ( 1 ) seconds ) of contractions in the spinal group were greater than in normal subjects ( p<0.001 ) , although the number of contractions seen throughout ramp inflation to 200 ml were similar in both groups ( total number , median , spinal v normal 7 v 5.5 ; p>0.05 ) . |
| 3 | The carrying capacity of much of the land was greater than in other parts of Wales hence the predominance of full-time units . |
| 4 | A control non-diabetic group was not recruited in this study so that it was not possible to determine whether the prevalence of hypertension in diabetics was greater than in non-diabetics . |
| 5 | The commonest evasions , certainly well known in the twelfth century , were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was , or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land ; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest ; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same . |
| 6 | As a result of the cut-back in production by the steel industry 's customers and the ‘ dumping ’ of subsidized special steel imports , the numbers of people employed in metal manufacture have declined enormously in recent years : between mid-1979 and mid-1983 the reduction in the numbers employed in this sector was greater than in any other sector of the economy ( Department of Employment 1983 : 511 ) . |
| 7 | Overall , by 1900 central government action concerning recognized social problems was greater than in 1870 but still slight in contrast with the magnitude of those problems and of the range of demands for action . |