Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] population " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1809 he had an open-air congregation of 1500 , more than the entire population of the town . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that adopted children make greater use of the psychiatric services than the general population , though this could be due to class factors . |
| 3 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 4 | Ethnic minorities suffer more than the general population from all the main housing disadvantages — overcrowding , sharing of dwellings , lacking basic amenities , older housing , etc. , as Table 3.18 shows . |
| 5 | People with cystic fibrosis had been less successful than the general population in achieving O level or equivalent qualifications , but more successful in achieving A level or higher qualifications . |
| 6 | People with cystic fibrosis are less likely to achieve O level or equivalent qualifications than the general population but more likely to have A levels , and women with cystic fibrosis are more likely to have degrees . |
| 7 | The group taking hypotensive drugs other than β blockers had a significantly lower risk than the general population . |
| 8 | Although studies of radiation workers in this country show , in fact , that they experience fewer cancer deaths than the general population . |
| 9 | FAP patients are at 100–300 times greater risk than the general population of dying from upper gastrointestinal malignancies . |
| 10 | In our study , significantly more miners complained of anorexia and weight loss than the general population , as shown in an earlier published report . |
| 11 | Cardiovascular disease is three times more common in diabetic patients than the non-diabetic population and is the main cause of death in people with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus . |
| 12 | Throughout this fact sheet ( unless otherwise stated ) we use the 65+ cut off for both sexes ; the retired population is therefore larger than the elderly population . |
| 13 | CRIME ‘ The prison population of the USA is bigger than the civilian population of seven member states of the United Nations , and better behaved than four of them . ’ |
| 14 | An American study from the University of Oregon showed that housewives had a 54 per cent higher incidence of cancer than the female population as a whole and 157 per cent higher than that portion of the female population who work outside the home . |
| 15 | They also make significantly fewer social and recreational trips than the overall population . |
| 16 | Counties ranged in population from about 2 million ( Lancashire ) to less that 30,000 ( Rutland ) ; county boroughs ranged from over 1 million ( Birmingham ) to 33,000 ( Canterbury ) — less than the minimum population stipulated in 1888 . |
| 17 | Perhaps an even greater shock for us than the small population , tiny towns and scattered rural communities is the shape of the countryside ; the physical geography seems to be different . |
| 18 | Area analysis would then provide details of : * population according to Census statistics and population updates ; * population by ACORN category ; * statistics for the number of people who work in that area ( which may be significantly larger than the resident population ) . |
| 19 | In an attempt to preserve their authority , the Chiefs amended the Constitution — which was already heavily biased in favour of the rural rather than the urban population — so that only five of the 37 Melanesian lower chamber seats were allocated to the urban areas , where approximately one-third of the Melanesian population lived . |
| 20 | Given the original form of recruitment of black workers and the operation of racial discrimination it is not surprising that a much larger proportion of black employees are manual workers than the white population in Britain . |
| 21 | Largely because of migration patterns , the non-white population is also younger than the white population ; for example , around 4 per cent ( approximately 97,000 ) of the black and Asian populations had reached retirement age by 1986 , compared with around 10 per cent of the white population ( Patel , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | The age and household composition of ethnic minority communities means that they have been more affected by the fall in the relative income position of households with children during the 1970s and 1980s than the white population . |
| 23 | It will be observed that the disparities occur at different levels of overall unemployment , and that all ethnic minorities experienced higher rates of unemployment than the white population in the 1980s . |
| 24 | Its 12 million pigs and 5 million cows ( considerably more , when added together , than the human population ) burden the land , and the water supply , with some 100 million tonnes of dung every year . |
| 25 | The street of the storytellers in Peshawar , Pakistan ; a desert island in the Indian Ocean , the magnificent Iguazu Falls in Argentina , the Potala in Tibet and the gigantic statues of Easter Island had , until recently , been seen by few people other than the local population , explorers , archaeologists or anthropologists , yet they are all included in the pages of current travel brochures . |
| 26 | A wider cross-section of the Italian than the British population avidly follows football . |
| 27 | During these amazing years of unprecedented expansion Greater London grew at a much faster rate than the national population as a whole and faster than the suburbs of any provincial city . |
| 28 | Such a population , especially if the average size of a family continues to diminish , calls for more looking after , medically and physically , than an equal population of lower average age : it does not die so cheaply and it does not , medically speaking , survive so cheaply . |