Example sentences of "than the [adj] cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is still cost-effective since the rest of its annual costs , £3.85M or about £10/tonne , are 27 per cent less than the average cost of refusal disposal to the GLC and only half those of long-distance hole-filling contracts ( up to £23/tonne ) . |
| 2 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 3 | In the first case , profits depend on having annual incomes which exceed annual out goings ; in the second , the price must be greater than the total cost of production inputs ( see Ambrose , 1986 : 4 ) . |
| 4 | For the product to be viable this line must have a steeper slope than the total cost line and intersect it at some point . |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 6 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 7 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 8 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 9 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 10 | which is greater than the estimated cost , .5 , of any of the other paths . |
| 11 | It is against this background that I approached the construction and which led me to prefer the interpretation which bases the assessment to tax upon the actual cost to the employer rather than the hypothetical cost arrived at by dividing the number of pupils into the total cost of providing full facilities . |
| 12 | This means that the net cost of raising bond finance is lower than the net cost of raising finance via a share issue . |
| 13 | Equipment-cost inflation has done more than the huge cost of the Welfare State and our poor economic performance to reduce Britain 's military independence . |
| 14 | She points out that at the size S 1 the marginal benefit of the last inch is less than the marginal cost to you , which is also the amount you must be compensated for that last inch on the tree . |
| 15 | In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost , so as a business proposition it is a non-starter . |
| 16 | In theory , and ( with due allowance for the uncertainties involved ) in practice too , this approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in so many corporate accounts . |
| 17 | This approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in many corporate accounts |
| 18 | A further incentive for a share sale rather than an assets sale is that , if the target company has recently been acquired , the shares will have a much higher base cost than the historical cost of the assets and the business . |
| 19 | Answer guide : Because of the effects of changes in other factors such as the price of the asset which will mean that the cost of replacement is greater than the original cost . |
| 20 | The cost of both voluntary and involuntary unemployment to the Exchequer is more readily quantifiable than the social cost . |