Example sentences of "compare with [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 2 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 3 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 4 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 5 | The coeliac patients were compared with a third group of 17 children ( mean age 9.7 , range 3–10 years , girls:boys 1.4:1 ) with various diseases or symptoms , such as chronic abdominal pain ( n=8 ) , failure to thrive ( n=6 ) , peptic ulcer ( n=2 ) , and immune deficiency ( n=1 ) . |
| 6 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 7 | With reference to figure 10.8(b) , application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to the input circuit yields and since the closed-loop gain may be represented as This time the closed-loop input impedance is With regard to the output impedance , if is the input impedance of the feedback network , Kirchhoff 's laws applied to the output circuit give Assuming that the impedance of a source of e.m.f. connected to the input is negligible compared with , Kirchhoff 's voltage law applied to the input circuit yields Hence from which the closed-loop output impedance is Often the first term of this expression is negligible compared with the second in which case |
| 8 | Why , compared with the first Brandt report , has this second , updated and more realistic document received such scant public notice ? |
| 9 | Moreover , the contract compared with the first operation some three years ago was most significant . |
| 10 | These incursions were , however , small-scale and localised compared with the first major upheaval in the life of Tudor Sussex , the Reformation . |
| 11 | Mackworth ( 1950 ) , within his classical studies of vigilance , showed that without knowledge of results the proportion of detected signals decreased in succeeding half-hours compared with the first half-hour , but for subjects given knowledge of results there was no deterioration compared with the first half-hour through the full two hours of the study . |
| 12 | Mackworth ( 1950 ) , within his classical studies of vigilance , showed that without knowledge of results the proportion of detected signals decreased in succeeding half-hours compared with the first half-hour , but for subjects given knowledge of results there was no deterioration compared with the first half-hour through the full two hours of the study . |
| 13 | First-half turnover was down compared with the first half of 1991-92 to $171.1m from $196m , although the company says revenues were constant , given comparable structures . |
| 14 | Now is n't that an anonimous vote compared with the first one ? |
| 15 | These immunoassays have shown increased sensitivity to anti-HCV in chronic hepatitis C and have shortened the period between infection and the detection of anti-HCV by four to five weeks when compared with the first generation assays . |
| 16 | All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year . |
| 17 | Compared with the first five months of 1990 , exports dropped from $3,050 million to $1,460 million , and imports from US$4,110 million to US$1,590 million . |
| 18 | For all these reasons the additional time and effort involved in achieving the improved results , compared with the first exercise , will be significant . |
| 19 | Eight hours after injection , integrated postprandial CCK release was not significantly different compared with the first measurement , without treatment ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 20 | The Berkshire-based company said it had operated at a ‘ much reduced loss ’ in the second half of last year , compared with the first . |
| 21 | Therefore , as long as for the sinusoidal component of lowest frequency present in the first term on the right-hand side of equation ( 10.45 ) can be neglected compared with the first term on the left-hand side . |
| 22 | This delay allows the micro to determine the signal peak value between zero crossings , each being compared with the last one ( IN0 ) and with a threshold value ( THRESHOLD ) . |
| 23 | ‘ It would need a change of culture compared with the last 13 years , ’ said one senior civil servant . |
| 24 | Development revenue was expected to be almost Rps10,400,000 million , including programme aid of Rps1,500,000 million and project aid of Rps8,900,000 million — representing a reduction compared with the last budget . |
| 25 | In elections in the south-eastern province of Styria ( Steiermark ) on Sept. 22 , the far-right opposition Freedom Party of Austria ( Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs — FPÖ — whose leader , Jörg Haider , had in June been compelled to step down as governor of Carinthia — see p. 38298 ) made significant gains , increasing its support by more than 10 per cent to 14.6 per cent , compared with the last elections in 1986 [ see p. 34695 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's a lot more darkness in this second TV series compared with the last one but darkness is what comedy is all about . |
| 27 | Naturally shortfalls and overruns occur when one year is compared with the next . |
| 28 | These are not , furthermore , isolated examples ; in scene four , Anderson has the longest turn ( 86 words compared with the next longest , McKendrick 's 47 ) as he does in the final scene ( 53 words against McKendrick 's 14 ) . |
| 29 | Compared with the fourth quarter of 1992 , the improvement is more than 3.5 points . |
| 30 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |