Example sentences of "higher than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 2 | Because if you eat a regular high carbohydrate diet then your BMR is likely to be higher than a person eating a high fat diet . |
| 3 | It was a little higher than a man , and it ended , rough and unfinished , in the centre of the clearing around the bank of screens . |
| 4 | Most bears were small and black , sometimes no higher than a man , but this great , shaggy-furred animal reminded him of stories he had heard from knights who had served with the Teutonic Orders in the wild black forests of the north . |
| 5 | Rates will vary : commission rates for exhibitions may well be higher than a gallery 's normal rate . |
| 6 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 7 | an octave higher than a blackbird 's , |
| 8 | Excluding prices of food , drink and tobacco , regarded as a more reliable guide to the underlying trend , factory gate prices rose 0.5 per cent during September and were 5.5 per cent higher than a year earlier . |
| 9 | In the US , meanwhile , there was a sharp jump of 0.9 per cent in September wholesale prices , which were 4.5 per cent higher than a year ago . |
| 10 | Production of luxury cars at Jaguar rose by 56% in the first four months of the year , largely due to increased demand in its biggest market , America , where sales in the first four months were 27% higher than a year ago . |
| 11 | In all seven broad industry categories monitored by TI , the level of failures was higher than a year previously . |
| 12 | It is higher than a year ago in every EFTA country and in every G7 country except Japan . |
| 13 | higher than a year ago . |
| 14 | Last year in the USA , AIDS cases in women were nearly 10pc higher than a year ago , and AIDS was now the leading cause of death in nine leading US cities for women of childbearing age . |
| 15 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 16 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 17 | I had just enough sense to appreciate that as a pain it rated no higher than a toothache . |
| 18 | Manager Frank Gray said : ‘ I think the standard of the Third Division is higher than a lot of people expected . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a lot higher than a lot of our competitors are achieving . ’ |
| 20 | Anyway ; he brought down this book ; history of the War in pictures , and it had like all these photos of the death camps , where the Nazis murdered millions of Jews , and communists , and homosexuals , and gypsies and anybody else they did n't like … but mostly Jews , and there were like just piles of bodies ; incredibly thin bodies , like bones ; skeletons wrapped with tissue paper , and piled higher than a house … and pits ; long pits full of bodies , and the metal stretchers they were put onto to be shoved into the ovens , and the piles of wedding rings and spectacles ; glasses , and even artificial legs and weird stuff like that … |
| 21 | ‘ For smaller businesses , the American Express card today will probably cost less than other cards and will certainly not be higher than a bank card . |
| 22 | Simply stated , the argument is that the cost of capital of a corporation with management that trades on inside information will be higher than a corporation with management that does not engage in such trading . |
| 23 | She was inspired , it is argued , by nothing higher than a desire for self-advertisement and for the applause of Voltaire and his fellow-writers in Western Europe . |
| 24 | Some children grasp the idea of standing on a box or steps to become higher than a tower or other object that is taller than themselves , so that , intuitively at least , they have some idea of the distinction between taller than and higher than . |
| 25 | ‘ The benefit is higher than the cost , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 27 | It 's , it 's , it 's marched with the capital and that 's why erm the capital value of our investments is so much higher than the cost . |
| 28 | The prevalence of vertebral fractures in women with rheumatoid arthritis aged over 65 is probably higher than the 12% found in the younger women in this study , and clinicians should be aware of the possibility of vertebral fractures in all patients with rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 29 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |
| 30 | He , who had been fêted in Munich , had talked with the elector and other noblemen , and been treated with the respect due to a great artist , now had to take his place in the archiepiscopal pecking-order — below the valets , and only slightly higher than the cooks . |