Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] average " in BNC.
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| 31 | For 1974–79 and 1979–84 which regions lose more and which lose less than the national average ? |
| 32 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 33 | Car ownership rates are higher in rural areas than the national average . |
| 34 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 35 | In a detailed study of premature mortality in North Tyne side , Phillimore ( 1989 ) has shown that people aged under 65 in the two worst-off wards are subject to mortality rates around 50 per cent higher than the national average , while in the two wards at the other extreme the rates are 30 per cent below average . |
| 36 | In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average . |
| 37 | Whereas during the 1980–81 period the unemployment rate in the South East was on average three and a half percentage points lower than the national average , it currently stands close to one percentage point lower , while the unemployment rate in Greater London is equal to the national average of 8.7 per cent . |
| 38 | However parts of Oxford may be valued significantly higher than this because some changes in rental values are significantly greater than the national average . |
| 39 | However , all the evidence concerning mining villages , where fertility rates continued to be high until the 1930s and where the average age at marriage was also significantly lower than the national average , suggests that role relationships within marriage were segregated . |
| 40 | All five LEAs were inner city areas , where the average educational attainment for every ethnic group is lower than the national average . |
| 41 | The Government came to office in 1979 , when my constituency , Ashton-under-Lyne , was a manufacturing area with a level of prosperity higher than the national average . |
| 42 | higher than the national average , and that should be taken into account . |
| 43 | Life expectancy in the valley is 10 years lower than the national average , and the incidence of respiratory disease is abnormally high . |
| 44 | Erm , again we utilize ninety one point nine two percent of the available inspecting officers ' time for inspections , rather than the national average of eighty four point three nine percent . |
| 45 | Conservative support among the over-65s was lower than in 1979 , indeed dropping by more than the national average . |
| 46 | Crime recorded in the Central South region last year rose by more than the national average . |
| 47 | According to a book published today , the percentage of Caesarean births at the PMH last year was 3 per cent higher than the national average . |
| 48 | Meanwhile good news in the clear up rate of robberies , about a third of those recorded in the Thames Valley are solved and that is higher than the national average . |
| 49 | The rate of conception in the 11–15 age group was almost 40pc higher than the national average and in the 16–19 age bracket , it was around 34pc higher . |
| 50 | Jeff Duffield , manager of Middlesbrough council 's environmental protection unit , said mortality rates in the district ‘ were 18pc higher than the national average , with heart and respiratory diseases the main factors ’ . |
| 51 | Mr Riley , for Bioplan , said the accident rate on Hollyhurst Road was lower than the national average . |
| 52 | Elliffe said fewer than one in three of the placements were disrupted which is better than the national average , and the project is placing children local authorities can not place . |
| 53 | MERSEYSIDE 'S battle against car crime reaped rewards last night when the region revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 54 | Meanwhile , Merseyside revealed figures almost four times better than the national average . |
| 55 | Net new investment in unit trusts last month was £339.4million , some 30 per cent higher than the monthly average so far this year . |
| 56 | Cantal farms appear to be generally larger than the French average . |