Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you talking about the current rate as it prevails or we 're told it prevails ion North Yorkshire , or are you looking at a figure which is somewhat nearer the national average or the figure which Mr 's organization have chosen . |
| 2 | So also the national electricity grids , when these appeared . |
| 3 | Economists estimate that Galway 's unemployment rate will soar above its present level of 34% — already twice the national average . ’ |
| 4 | Now , he wrote , seeing that during the ‘ critical years of adolescence ’ not more than one out of every three elementary school-leavers received any kind of educational care , there ‘ is reason for thinking that once more the national minimum should be raised ’ . |
| 5 | One of the more controversial aspects of the budget , and one which contributed to the growing public concern about the integrity of the political system , was an increase in the so-called " MPs ' slush fund " ( more correctly the National Development Fund ) to K100,000 annually for each member . |
| 6 | Unemployment has risen in Cadiz province above 30 per cent , nearly twice the national average . |
| 7 | Levels around Hinckley Point are nearly twice the national average and , between 1969 and 1973 , cases of cancer were four times higher than the national average in people under the age of 25 living in a radius of 12.5km around Hinckley Point . |
| 8 | In 1986 the poorest 20% of households received less than half the average final income , whilst the richest 20% received nearly twice the national average . |
| 9 | Making money for good causes is probably why the National Wildlife Federation , the National Audubon Society and other environmental mailers sell their mailing lists to high-fashion clothiers , luxury-car dealers and other non-tree-hugging capitalists . |
| 10 | Put the carpets , put everything in and er and we paid for it and they still go ad now course the national union 's taken it over but when we joined the national union there were two things that er I stipulated before we 'd join . |
| 11 | In either case , ‘ swings and roundabouts ’ even out the national result — but still with a bias to small parties . |
| 12 | Pharmacists and dental practitioners come next , with around double the national average , followed closely by farmers and medical practitioners . |
| 13 | Almost immediately the national press began taking up the campaign . |
| 14 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be thought to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 15 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |