Example sentences of "higher than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The water charges will be up to four times higher than the existing figure of £57 . |
2 | Diesel prices on the black markeat are ten times higher than the official price . |
3 | These figures are more than 200 times higher than the official toll of 31 deaths as claimed by the former Soviet government . |
4 | According to a report by the Central American Institute of Research and Industrial Technology , Salvadoreans living in the cotton-producing areas suffered from levels of DDT in the body 11 times higher than the corresponding average found in Florida , USA . |
5 | The figures represented an extraordinary proportion by historical standards ( some 10 times higher than the estimated percentage of US friendly fire casualties sustained in any other 20th century war ) , and were three times higher than had been previously admitted . |
6 | When this risk is compared to other cancer risks , it is found that the lifelong risk from passive smoking is more than 100 times higher than the estimated effect of 20 years ' exposure to chrysotile asbestos normally found in asbestos-containing buildings [ 5 ] . |
7 | The maximum penalty for an offence was set higher than the maximum punishment that the court which usually tried the crime was empowered to inflict . |
8 | A study of vegetables from Warsaw 's Ochota district showed they contained 16 mg of lead per kg — eight times higher than the maximum safety level permitted by the World Health Organization . |
9 | Thereafter , the rate is guaranteed to be at least 1.5% higher than the gross variable rate payable on the £5,000 Sovereign Shares Account . |
10 | In fact the possession of a high work of fracture — at least a thousand times higher than the free surface energy — is an essential characteristic of all safe and practical structural materials which are used in tension . |
11 | Levels around Hinckley Point are nearly twice the national average and , between 1969 and 1973 , cases of cancer were four times higher than the national average in people under the age of 25 living in a radius of 12.5km around Hinckley Point . |
12 | In relation to offences involving personal violence there would appear to be little evidence from the survey to substantiate claims that Merseyside is an exceptionally violent area In relation to household crimes , however , the rate in Merseyside is substantially higher and in the case of burglary three times higher than the national average . |
13 | Water is ill at ease when situated higher than the surrounding ground , almost as if it is impatient to tumble to a lower area . |