Example sentences of "[adj] than the [adj] cost " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cost of both voluntary and involuntary unemployment to the Exchequer is more readily quantifiable than the social cost . |
| 2 | This means that the net cost of raising bond finance is lower than the net cost of raising finance via a share issue . |
| 3 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 4 | for every naive state N , h(N) is not more than the least cost of any path from N to a goal ; and |
| 5 | It is £100,000 more than the estimated cost the council had put on the work , and more than £32,000 more than the second highest bid . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 7 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 8 | It is a good illustration of one of the reasons why I withdrew this subsection , in that the cost to the employer in this instance could be much less than the arm's-length cost to the outside person taking advantage of such a service . ’ |
| 9 | But it is still cost-effective since the rest of its annual costs , £3.85M or about £10/tonne , are 27 per cent less than the average cost of refusal disposal to the GLC and only half those of long-distance hole-filling contracts ( up to £23/tonne ) . |
| 10 | In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost , so as a business proposition it is a non-starter . |
| 11 | She points out that at the size S 1 the marginal benefit of the last inch is less than the marginal cost to you , which is also the amount you must be compensated for that last inch on the tree . |
| 12 | which is greater than the estimated cost , .5 , of any of the other paths . |
| 13 | In the first case , profits depend on having annual incomes which exceed annual out goings ; in the second , the price must be greater than the total cost of production inputs ( see Ambrose , 1986 : 4 ) . |
| 14 | Answer guide : Because of the effects of changes in other factors such as the price of the asset which will mean that the cost of replacement is greater than the original cost . |