Example sentences of "compared with a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measured by the government 's official poverty line — which counts as poor a family of four with an income below $12,675 , in 1989 dollars — the proportion of blacks stuck at the bottom has refused to budge from around a third for the past 20 years , compared with a tenth of all whites . |
| 2 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 3 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 4 | The coeliac patients were compared with a third group of 17 children ( mean age 9.7 , range 3–10 years , girls:boys 1.4:1 ) with various diseases or symptoms , such as chronic abdominal pain ( n=8 ) , failure to thrive ( n=6 ) , peptic ulcer ( n=2 ) , and immune deficiency ( n=1 ) . |
| 5 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 6 | A recent analysis of the American market in diamond jewellery has shown that nearly half is given for Christmas as compared with an eighth each to mark birthdays and wedding anniversaries . |