Example sentences of "the cheaper " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the choice in such circumstances , many of InterCity 's customers on low or fixed incomes — in particular students and senior citizens — preferred the cheaper but slower coach option . |
| 2 | This is the cheaper option , but does not generally give you a great deal of choice in terms of design , features or finish . |
| 3 | Faced with the decision of raising less money and hoping for a successful issue or shelving the flotation altogether , Ronnie Frost , chairman , opted for the cheaper share price . |
| 4 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
| 5 | I can , as yet , rate only the cheaper of these because I have yet to summon up the chutzpah to ask Tesco to send me all their other examples to sample . |
| 6 | Among the cheaper European destinations is Bulgaria , where Balkan Holidays ( 01-493 8612 ) offer a 7-night fly/drive with set itinerary and B&B at hotels from £239 , the route to include Golden Sands , the Borgas area , Plovdiv , Sofia and Veliko Turnovo in the Yantra Gorge . |
| 7 | Everyone knows that 1990 will be a tough year , with bookings something like 40 per cent down , the public playing a lament in J. Major , the tour operators bent on improving profit margins instead of competing by price for market share , with heavily reduced capacity particularly at the cheaper end of the range . |
| 8 | The pure ewes ' milk cheese is of a better flavour than the cheaper mixed milk version and it also has a very dry texture . |
| 9 | They are best used for cocktail savouries , but the cheaper mussels make a very tasty pasta sauce . |
| 10 | She now had a young designer friend who lent — Nigel sincerely hoped it was n't sold — her a wide variety of sixties and seventies gear of the cheaper kind . |
| 11 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
| 12 | He admitted he had waited ten minutes to enter an exhibition to take advantage of the cheaper rates after 5.30 p.m . |
| 13 | The cheaper versions have simpler power steering . |
| 14 | In fact , Mike Connolly , of Sainsbury , said the French had slightly increased their share of the supermarket group 's sales at the cheaper end , although other retailers had a different experience . |
| 15 | I enquire about the cheaper PS/1 ( a snip at £699 , plus VAT , complete with starter software ) . |
| 16 | And there are no estate agents ' fees to pay when you buy , unlike in France , where all fees — from 10 to 25 per cent of the purchase price ( the cheaper the property the higher the fees ) — including four or five per cent for the estate agent , notarial costs , taxes and other liabilities , must be paid by the purchaser . |
| 17 | Despite new evidence that the brain damage caused by childhood exposure to lead as low as half the EC limit can affect people well into adulthood , in June 1990 , the UK dropped plans to pull out old lead pipes , in favour of the cheaper but less reliable chemical dosing method . |
| 18 | The cheaper type engines as fitted to RR such as Perkins 4203 and 4236 , Ford York , etc are not suitable with automatic gearboxes If you need an auto box then the only options are the bigger high reving ( and expensive ) engines such as the VM 3 6 six cyl or the Nissan 3 5 four cyl |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , the more energy efficiency was included , the cheaper energy became . |
| 20 | It will long remain a problem to the average person that these sheds had such wide popularity and that so little use was made of the cheaper , cleaner , or , in fact , better umbrella sheds . |
| 21 | Benefiting from the cheaper labour and materials of the past , they are more solid , more soundproof , and better retainers of heat . |
| 22 | The latter , facilitated by the arrival of the cheaper 16 mm and 8 mm formats , represented an exciting departure for feminist film-makers . |
| 23 | The more oil glands or ducts present in the plant , the cheaper the oil and vice versa . |
| 24 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
| 25 | It had therefore retained , almost uniquely , the suitably balanced carcass of a true meat breed , in contrast to the strong-shouldered , strong-necked draught types in which all the bulk was thrown forwards into the cheaper meat-cut areas . |
| 26 | With block contracts , which specify the number of cases to be treated , the provider has an incentive to select the cheaper cases within the categories specified and to minimise the level of service per patient . |
| 27 | Privatization of this sort has less to do with increased public choice by individual consumers and more to do with the cheaper provision of a standard service . |
| 28 | Many women met their husbands from work at dinner time and did their weekly shopping , taking advantage of the cheaper prices at the market and some to ensure they got their housekeeping money before their spouses spent their wages on drink . |
| 29 | You could reply ‘ They will last longer than some of the cheaper brands , and they 're under guarantee . ’ |
| 30 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |