Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 2 | The OECD Economic Outlook indicated that the trade deficit in the USA stabilized at an annual rate $5,000 million lower than in the second half of 1988 . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , instability thresholds are lower than in the quasi-Lorenz system , and the restrictions on decay rates less severe . |
| 4 | GABA concentrations in the epileptogenic hippocampus are lower than in the non-epileptogenic side , which suggests that there may be altered release or reuptake despite the relative preservation of GABA neurons . |
| 5 | In the first three months of 1990 , the guess is that they were again about 13% lower than in the first quarter of 1989 , but there are now hopes that it was the last drop for a while . |
| 6 | While the seven sectors examined were expected to continue to create jobs until the end of the decade , that rate of increase is predicted to be lower than in the recent past , as new technology and industrial concentration increase productivity . |
| 7 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 8 | TOTAL construction orders in the third quarter of 1989 were 9 per cent lower than in second quarter and 3 per cent lower than in the same period of 1988 , according to provisional figures from the Department of Environment . |
| 9 | In August to October sales were 0.25 per cent lower than in the previous three months ( after seasonal adjustment ) and 0.25 per cent lower than in the same period a year earlier . |
| 10 | Gross sugar production for 1989 was expected to be slightly lower than in the previous year , at 614,220 tonnes compared with 672,087 tonnes . |
| 11 | The surplus of S$1,500 million would be 38 per cent lower than in the previous year . |
| 12 | Inflation , if still a problem , was much lower than in the previous decade and nominal rates of interest were also lower . |
| 13 | By volume , retail sales grew just 1.2 per cent in the year to August and in the latest three months they were 1 per cent lower than in the previous period . |
| 14 | Although the level of capacity utilization reached at the height of the upswing was lower than in the previous boom ( and so the extent of ‘ overheating ’ , as conventionally measured was less ) , the rate of expansion was faster than at any time since 1958–9 . |
| 15 | Suggestions that the split was in part a generational conflict were reinforced by figures which indicated that , of the Takeshita faction 's total legislative strength of 109 members , Obuchi was supported by only 19 members in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber , where members tended to be younger than in the upper chamber ) but by all 42 members in the House of Councillors . |
| 16 | The other will be concerned with the ‘ space ’ given to the new authorities and whether it is larger than in the old system . |
| 17 | Here , the volutes are larger as in the Ionic order and the upper row of acanthus leaves is replaced by the egg and tongue and bead and reel mouldings from the Ionic capital . |
| 18 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 19 | Women 's representation in the European Parliament is somewhat better than in the British Parliament . |
| 20 | Excitation within a d-d band may lead to very little resonance Raman enhancement , and indeed for some species with inversion centers it has been found that the Raman bands are weaker than in the normal Raman spectrum when excited by light in the absorption profile of a d-d band . |
| 21 | In the infrared , extinction by dust is an order of magnitude smaller than in the visible portion of the spectrum . |
| 22 | Louis was told that it was substantially smaller than in the previous year , but in fact the allied fleet assembled at Portsmouth consisted of 63 English ships and 36 Dutch , with a combined fire-power of 6736 guns , plus 38 fireships ; the French , moving up-Channel from Brest , could muster 44 warships with 3240 guns and 38 fireships . |
| 23 | in 1989 , gives a total interaction time of a large fraction of a second , allowing the possibility of a linewidth some two orders of magnitude smaller than in the conventional arrangement . |
| 24 | In the southern hemisphere , the impact of aircraft operations on the total ozone column amount is anticipated to be much smaller than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 25 | In this sector of the market profits per car sold are generally considerably higher than in the mass-produced car market . |
| 26 | higher than in the first half of 1990 . |
| 27 | For all types of custody the proportion of all ethnic minorities in the prison population was higher than in the general population . |
| 28 | TI said that business failures notified to it rose by 6.7 per cent between the second and third quarters of 1991 , and were 78 per cent higher than in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 29 | Tourism continued to do well in 1990 with the number of arrivals in the first nine months of 1990 5.5 per cent higher than in the corresponding period of 1989 . |
| 30 | This is very much a Third World phenomenon for , throughout these areas , the rate of population increase is considerably higher than in the industrialised world . |