Example sentences of "than the previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out-patient visits were 8 per cent higher than the previous year . |
| 2 | In those four boroughs where no one party had overall control there was a much more pronounced rise in Labour support , with the party 's share of the vote in Wirral increasing by over 8% despite an individual poll tax figure below government estimates and average household bills less than the previous year 's rates . |
| 3 | There were no records broken that day , the winner taking fourteen minutes twenty seconds to cover the course , over a minute slower than the previous year 's winner . |
| 4 | The British were clearly a much happier group than the previous year , not least because Annewanter has a great deal of experience with smaller teams . |
| 5 | While sales revenues dropped to IR£273.6 million ( 1991 : IR£292.1 million ) , overall volume substantially held up , a creditable performance in a year when most of the Group 's major markets were in recession Financing costs at IR£7.7 million ( 1991 : IR£6.5 million ) reflect higher average debt over the period The taxation charge at IR£2 million was lower than the previous year due to lower profits in high tax jurisdictions . |
| 6 | A tightening labour market , coupled with higher productivity growth , was reflected in higher wage settlements ( in the first quarter of 1989 wages increased by an average 5.2 per cent — one point higher than the previous year ) , with the accompanying risk of an increase in the inflation rate . |
| 7 | The deficit was subsequently reduced to IR1,430,000 million , still 19 per cent higher than the previous year . |
| 8 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 9 | The investment and equipment budget , at 129,578,000 million francs CFA , was projected at 10.6 per cent less than the previous year . |
| 10 | Debt servicing was allocated R2,700 million , 27 per cent more than the previous year . |
| 11 | The package , worth 6 per cent more than the previous year 's assistance , went a long way towards the $9,200 million required by India to meet an expected current-account deficit of $6,000 million and debt repayments of $3,200 million . |
| 12 | Defence spending was planned to rise by 5.1 per cent , the lowest percentage rise since 1960 , and a whole percentage point lower than the previous year 's increase . |
| 13 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 14 | Recorded crime fell in eight police force areas the rate of increase in violent crime was significantly lower than the previous year and the rise in reported thefts was the smallest for four years . |
| 15 | In spite of the reduced and indeed reducing turnover that we have had in the past 12 months , 1992 provided a better financial result than the previous year . |
| 16 | Yellow metal spent the majority of this 12 month period locked in a narrow range between $329 and $352 and the average of $338 was $19 lower than the previous year . |
| 17 | In Spain , conditions have been extremely difficult with the beer market in significant decline due to economic circumstances ; as a result volumes overall were lower than the previous year . |
| 18 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 19 | The institute found that the global average temperature , although cooler than the previous year , was still well above the average from 1951 to 1980 and in line with values for the 1980s . |
| 20 | The group predicted the poor trading conditions would continue with full-year profits in the division likely to be significantly lower than the previous year . |
| 21 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
| 22 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 23 | We have indications that black people have , over the past 30 years , become more present in the criminal statistics than the previous generation , reaching a level with , and in some categories , exceeding the indigenous population . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 25 | Borland International Inc is ready with a new release of its dBase IV database management system for MS-DOS and will announce the release of a MS-DOS compiler for dBase for the end of the month ; according to US PC Week , dBase IV 2.0 is designed to run up to 10 times faster than the previous release and the compiler will enable developers to create dBase III , dBase III Plus and dBase IV executable files that can be distributed to end users . |
| 26 | The world complained about Adobe 's restrictions but all the major typesetter vendors realised that a single well defined and maintained standard was better than the previous chaos and so adopted Adobe 's PostScript . |
| 27 | It would create about 15,000 jobs and would cost between £2 billion and £3 billion , considerably less than the previous route . |
| 28 | Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage . |
| 29 | The Soviet figure was 10 per cent higher than the previous calculation — much more than expected — and led to a flurry of checks on the accuracy of similar calculations . |
| 30 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |