Example sentences of "[adj] than the previous [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While sales revenues dropped to IR£273.6 million ( 1991 : IR£292.1 million ) , overall volume substantially held up , a creditable performance in a year when most of the Group 's major markets were in recession Financing costs at IR£7.7 million ( 1991 : IR£6.5 million ) reflect higher average debt over the period The taxation charge at IR£2 million was lower than the previous year due to lower profits in high tax jurisdictions . |
| 2 | Defence spending was planned to rise by 5.1 per cent , the lowest percentage rise since 1960 , and a whole percentage point lower than the previous year 's increase . |
| 3 | Recorded crime fell in eight police force areas the rate of increase in violent crime was significantly lower than the previous year and the rise in reported thefts was the smallest for four years . |
| 4 | Yellow metal spent the majority of this 12 month period locked in a narrow range between $329 and $352 and the average of $338 was $19 lower than the previous year . |
| 5 | In Spain , conditions have been extremely difficult with the beer market in significant decline due to economic circumstances ; as a result volumes overall were lower than the previous year . |
| 6 | The group predicted the poor trading conditions would continue with full-year profits in the division likely to be significantly lower than the previous year . |
| 7 | At breakfast time the general atmosphere among the residents was still subdued , but much less strained than the previous evening . |
| 8 | Now his attention was focussed on why the tower had bent and his second effort not only bent as before but was even taller than the previous tower . |
| 9 | Asserting that the situation had improved since 1990 and that the Serrano government was more highly motivated than the previous administration in promoting respect for human right and bringing the perpetrators of abuses to justice , the report pointed out that the army still failed to co-operate with the police and the judiciary in prosecuting army personnel . |
| 10 | In his report to the Assembly , the Secretary-General said that by December only 72 countries had paid their contributions ( fewer than the previous year ) and that resources would be exhausted by the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 11 | The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great . |
| 12 | The following night , Vega was prepared to go on but it was decided that since the crowd seemed even more hyper than the previous evening , the risk of damage to singer and gear was felt to be too great . |
| 13 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 14 | The world complained about Adobe 's restrictions but all the major typesetter vendors realised that a single well defined and maintained standard was better than the previous chaos and so adopted Adobe 's PostScript . |
| 15 | He forecast that the 1992 grain harvest would be better than the previous year , and could guarantee that the people would not go hungry during the winter . |
| 16 | Not only were Arsenal the first southern club to win the title , but their 66 points were six better than the previous high of Sheffield Wednesday the year before : 28 out of 42 games were won , only four lost , and wins , draws and losses were evenly divided between home and away ; the goals total , 127 , was one less than Aston Villa 's all-time high of the same year . |
| 17 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |
| 18 | Debt servicing was allocated R2,700 million , 27 per cent more than the previous year . |
| 19 | The package , worth 6 per cent more than the previous year 's assistance , went a long way towards the $9,200 million required by India to meet an expected current-account deficit of $6,000 million and debt repayments of $3,200 million . |
| 20 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
| 21 | Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage . |
| 22 | But this , even more than the previous example , is not , of course , an attitude confined to women . |
| 23 | Once , he piled 66 milk crates on his head — 42 more than the previous record . |
| 24 | Ami Pro 3.0 uses the mouse much more than the previous version . |
| 25 | It is less ambiguous than the previous version but still suggests that if your car will run on standard unleaded petrol , it will run even better on Super Plus unleaded . |
| 26 | The Interactive software development system includes a new version of Liant Software Corp 's C compiler , which is said to run 80% faster than the previous version , plus a Motif version of the CodeWatch debugger . |
| 27 | The Interactive software development system includes a new version of Liant Software Corp 's C compiler , which is said to run 80% faster than the previous version , plus a Motif version of the CodeWatch debugger . |
| 28 | It would create about 15,000 jobs and would cost between £2 billion and £3 billion , considerably less than the previous route . |
| 29 | The investment and equipment budget , at 129,578,000 million francs CFA , was projected at 10.6 per cent less than the previous year . |
| 30 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |