Example sentences of "greater than [art] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 LOSSES at Lloyd 's the London insurance market may be even greater than the £2 billion lost in 1989 when the final figures for 1990 are released this summer , according to analysts in the City .
2 Secret tax concessions offered to British Aerospace to secure the sale of the Rover Group could take the ‘ hidden sweeteners ’ involved to a sum much greater than the £48 million already uncovered , it was claimed .
3 The apc falls as income rises and is greater than the mpc .
4 Clearly , the apc 's are all greater than the mpc and are diminishing as income rises .
5 As can be seen from Table 2 , which shows figures from the United Kingdom Family Expenditure Survey of 1986 , the apc has a marked tendency to fall as we move from lower to higher income groups ; also , the apc is greater than the mpc in every case .
6 If the recovery fails to materialise , the deficit in 1993-94 could be even greater than the £50 billion forecast , and the Chancellor will either have to slash welfare spending in November or put taxes up even further , risking a vicious circle of rising taxes , depleted spending power and slower growth , or borrow more which inevitably will mean putting interest rates back up .
7 The Paris-based European end of the Software Publishers Association reports that the European market for personal computer software products grew 19% by revenue last year , to $1,700m , which was greater than the 14% increase registered in the US .
8 Professor John Brewer has recently pointed out that the capital value of the fleet at the end of the eighteenth century was perhaps five times greater than the £402,651 at which the West Riding woollen manufacture was valued in 1801 .
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