Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] figure for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 2 | Investment capital group 3i has made new investments worth £275m in the six months up to March , nearly 90pc more than the figure for the corresponding period a year ago . |
| 3 | One reason that the monthly indicators look worse than the figures for total GNP , is that industrial production and business sales exclude certain factors that bolster GNP . |
| 4 | Crack use , however , may be much higher than the figures for seizures indicate if ‘ crack ’ is taken to include ‘ freebase . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |