Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ? |
| 2 | This is of course very much smaller than the comparative figure for the previous year of £321,715 , but it should also be looked at in the context of the budget for 1991–92 which had predicted a loss of £117,000 . |
| 3 | Rangoon-based diplomats were reported as saying that the number of political detainees was much higher than the official figure . |
| 4 | Opposition spokesmen claimed that the real turn-out was far lower than the official figure . |
| 5 | According to The Impossible Investigation , a book by police Inspector Antoine Gaudino published in October 1990 , Urbatechnic had made payments allegedly worth F25,000,000 ( rather than the official figure of F100,000 ) towards Mitterrand 's presidential campaign . |
| 6 | No-one disputes that the real number of drug users is much higher than the official figure . |
| 7 | However , viewed on the international stage the UK 's recent increases in R&D expenditure rose 8% , 2% more than the aggregate figure for British companies . |
| 8 | The water charges will be up to four times higher than the existing figure of £57 . |
| 9 | In 1971 the UK was second only to the USA as a home base for multinational companies ; overseas production by British-based multinationals as a proportion of domestic output in 1977 was , at 40 per cent , higher than the corresponding figure for any other national economy except Switzerland ; and in 1971 nearly 20 per cent of UK output was produced by overseas based companies . |
| 10 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 11 | The average inflation rate under the last Labour Government was no less than the astonishing figure of 15 per cent . |
| 12 | The bronze antenna in the statue , 6ft higher than the twice-lifesize figure , is to be a flagpole on which a real flag will be raised and lowered daily . |
| 13 | As Table 12 , above , shows , a number of chronological groups contained a markedly higher proportion of items in need of repair than the overall figure of 6% already calculated . |
| 14 | New title output was now down to four a month rather than the previous figure of 12 to 14 . |
| 15 | The technique also enables them to opt for a 4 ohms working impedance ( as opposed to the norm of 8 ohms ) in the knowledge that this figure is much more consistent than the nominal figure given for almost all other loudspeakers ( in one or two notable designs the impedance dips almost to a short-circuit at certain frequencies , making them un-usuable with many amplifiers ) . |
| 16 | It estimated in May 1952 that British overseas defence spending was ten times greater than the prewar figure . |
| 17 | This is obviously much less than the comparable figure of half a billion , which is the factor by which the histone H4 gene after natural selection is more accurate than a typical secretary ; but it is still a very impressive figure . |
| 18 | This was considerably more than the anecdotal evidence and clinical experience had suggested ( less than one death per year ) , although slightly lower than the national figure . |
| 19 | Moreover , only Wiltshire experienced a cutback in growth rate between the decades that was greater than the national figure , while 15 of the 20 areas saw a positive movement in growth rate against the national trend . |
| 20 | This is a slightly larger rise than the national figure for Mechanical engineering , which recorded a 12% increase on 1989 levels . |
| 21 | This figure accounts for almost 5% of Grampian 's total exports , and is significantly higher than the national figure of 2% . |
| 22 | Which is still substantially higher than the national figure , and substantially higher than the figure being proposed by the Department of the Environment for North Yorkshire . |
| 23 | I 've got more of an athletic figure than a womanly figure — and I 've hardly any waist ’ |
| 24 | He said that in some countries the president was no more than a decorative figure . |
| 25 | Apart from this belief in the straightforward truth of books which would now be seen as in differing degrees myth , with Adam as Everyman rather than a historical figure , for example , there was diffidence about the boundaries of science . |
| 26 | In Some cases , those where laws have been enacted , this will be justified , but for those that remain mere hopes it is no more than a persuasive figure of speech . |
| 27 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |