Example sentences of "efficient than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Aperture for aperture , a refractor is more efficient than a reflector , and it is also easier to maintain .
2 Each fruit bristled with invisible barbs , a pin-cushion of spider 's craft and cunning , a defence against predators more efficient than a carapace .
3 According to the relative specialisation models , both hemispheres can perform a given function but one is faster or more efficient than the other .
4 Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " .
5 And er happily we went along in that situation and I 've got to say this er I had shop stewards who even if they were new shop stewards coming into the committee , were n't long in developing the same train of thought as ourselves and , and you know we dealt with things in such a manner but er we were efficient just as efficient , you know , as our members were on the production line , and perhaps a little more efficient than the management in determining times .
6 Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ?
7 Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control .
8 They concluded Wolvertons ' method was quicker and more efficient than the Ordnance Factories ' .
9 The air force 's reserves seem much more efficient than the army 's or the navy 's .
10 If the first state among siblings always leads to a goal , it will be much more efficient than the breadth first version ; but otherwise it may be worse .
11 Austrians are highly critical of neo-classical theory for its static treatment of markets and its assumption of perfect information ; these assume away the very factors that explain how markets work and why market coordination is more efficient than the alternative of regulation and planning .
12 Given that the only available pieces of information are the high , low and closing prices , they derived the minimum variance unbiased estimator of Var ( ln ΔF t ) , which is more efficient than the Parkinson estimator .
13 We know that the eukaryotic cell is much larger and more efficient than the procaryote , carrying more genetic material .
14 On this occasion at least the KGB were more efficient than the CIA .
15 Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that .
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