Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number densities of craters on the maria are far lower than on the highlands , indicating , as outlined in section 3.3.4 , that the maria surfaces are younger . |
| 2 | Here items in short supply are sold at inflated prices — but still generally lower than on the black market . |
| 3 | Second , when the discount houses want to " test the water " for an interest rate cut , they might offer paper ½%; lower than on the previous day at the first opportunity ( that is , at 9.45 a.m. or midday ) . |
| 4 | It is also restricted to the tips of the incisors , where it is usually heavier than on the category 1 samples . |
| 5 | At the pavement 's edge Joseph stood surveying the crowd with fascinated eyes ; in Cholon 's narrower streets , Europeans were far rarer than on the boulevards of Saigon , and the vast majority of the faces were Chinese . |
| 6 | Even excluding bonuses , British top managers beat their French , German and Dutch counterparts with a 12.1 per cent hike in basic pay ( although their real increases — 5.1 per cent — were not much larger than on the continent ) . |
| 7 | You can talk personally better than on the phone . |
| 8 | Inside Bellavista life is even cheaper than on the streets of Medellin . |
| 9 | With literally hundreds of places to eat , drink and make merry , not to mention the theatres , ballet and galleries , it 's no wonder Düsseldorf is known as ‘ Petit Paris ’ ( but a beer here is a lot cheaper than on the Champs Elysees ! ) |
| 10 | Because Economy 7 makes electric water heating very cheap — much cheaper than on the Domestic General Tariff . |
| 11 | Tonight Tesco insisted its own survey 's had shown its prices to be constitently cheaper than on the continent . |
| 12 | If there is a lunar-wide crust then one explanation of the offset of the centre of mass from the centre of figure is that the crust on the far side is , on average , thicker than on the near side . |
| 13 | Not only were there more 40s. men and fewer at £1 or less , but in the borough itself the poorest class was much smaller than on the land , implying that the more skilled , more remunerative trades were carried out there , while poorly paid weavers and the like lived and worked in Speenhamland . |
| 14 | Overcrowding on the bus service is even worse than on the train service . |
| 15 | In these circumstances investors are continuing to cast an eye over convertibles — the yield can be considerably higher than on the underlying equity and yet the premium on the conversion price need not be too large . |
| 16 | She loved the way she could jump much higher than on the Earth . |
| 17 | If this seems an abstruse form of cultivation it is not one that is limited to modern agriculture , but can be found in many suburban gardens where , acre for acre , the concentrations of both fertilizer and pesticide are higher than on the average arable farm . |
| 18 | ( There is always a danger of pinning in any kayak or canoe but on rivers the chances of getting trapped in a boat are , of course , much higher than on the sea . ) |
| 19 | The average surface temperature on Venus is also much higher than on the Earth , 730 K instead of 288 K. The troposphere extends up to an altitude of about 60 km , and in its lower 50 km or so the lapse-rate is adiabatic . |
| 20 | On the family farm this change had been , if anything , greater than on the larger units . |
| 21 | Thus on AB the rate of arrival of the sand grains and the surface creep will be greater than on the reverse slope , BC . |
| 22 | A. Farmers in the uplands know that the climate is cooler than on the lowlands . |