Example sentences of "generally [adj] level of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 None the less , some things do seem clear : the unlikelihood of more baby booms , except for weaker echoes of the present one , and a generally lower level of fertility .
2 Although , as we have noted , women are much less likely than men to select back variants of /a/ , this generally lower level of use does not prevent individual women from varying their realization of /a/ , within the female norms , according to their social network structure .
3 Certain kinds of employers ' combinations seem to have been hindered by antitrust legislation and this may help to explain the generally low level of organisation among employers .
4 Preliminary work carried out by [ MS during 1983 found a generally low level of information in departments about the initial destinations of their postgraduate students ( 1 ) .
5 The significant features of rural tenure that differ from the national picture are : high proportions of owner-occupied housing , high levels of private rental , and generally low levels of council housing ( table 5.3 ) .
6 The generally low levels of memory which had been expected were obtained .
7 ( 1978 ) studies are characterized by generally low levels of arousal , whereas studies such as those by Peters ( 1988 ) and Johnson and Scott ( 1976 ) have been successful in inducing the higher levels of arousal assumed to be associated with violent crimes .
8 This may help them assess the range of teaching quality within the school , on the assumption that a generally high level of provision across the week for a given class will tend to produce better attendance and vice versa .
9 This found not only a generally high level of support for the police , but that this spread throughout the class structure ( indeed was marginally higher in the working class ) .
10 Indeed , it is undoubtedly the Wolfenden Committee who were responsible for the generally high level of debate concerning reform of the law in this area in the following eight or nine years .
11 It appears that this procedure is rarely used because of the ignorance and fear of disgruntled clients and because there appears to be a generally high level of satisfaction with the services provided .
12 Canid assemblages have generally high levels of digestion of the molars both in terms of degree and numbers affected ( Fig. 3.21 F-I ) , and they fit well with category 5 , but the small African canid , the bat-eared fox fits category 3 in all respects ( Fig. 3.21 G-H ) .
13 The WEU spent much of the period from mid-1990 to mid-1991 in redefining its role and its aspirations in the light of the generally decreasing level of superpower tensions , and particularly in the light of the United States ' plans to withdraw a large proportion of its troops from NATO bases in Europe .
14 Add to this a generally shallow level of discourse marked by cliché calls for ‘ cultural growth ’ and ‘ multicultural relativity ’ , and you will begin to sense the absurdity of this function of UNESCO 's museum arm .
15 Though a few traveller families and children will continue to require individual services , as in the rest of the population , a generally increased level of surveillance and individualised casework will not provide the answer .
16 H. J. Eysenck proposed that a fundamental difference between introverts and extraverts is their chronic levels of arousal , introverts having generally higher levels of arousal than extraverts .
17 For even at the generally modest level of competition that Beckenham offers , the British are shown to be dismal failures .
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