Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term y must be positive , and so the no-arbitrage price for futures on a geometric index is lower than for the corresponding arithmetic index . |
| 2 | Mike Ross , Widows ' managing director , said : ‘ Despite a good 1992 , nominal investment returns during the 1990s continue to be considerably lower than for the 1980s . |
| 3 | ‘ The differences in our electorate are much bigger than for the conservative parties , ’ says Heidi Wieczorek-Zeul , a member of the party praesidium . |
| 4 | The mean age of patients with cancers of the cardia , however , was significantly younger than for the other sites ( 64.7 ( 11.0 ) v 70.0 ( 11.0 ) , p=0.009 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 5 | Aid officials agree that conditions are far better than for the wretched Kurds stuck on the freezing mountains . |
| 6 | ‘ The overall results are slightly worse than for the first three months of 1992 , with definite signs of the recessionary effect becoming widespread nationally , ’ said Manpower spokeswoman Lilian Bennett . |
| 7 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |
| 8 | The transistor bridge bipolar drive circuit requires four transistor/diode pairs per phase , whereas the simple unipolar drive requires only one pair per phase , so drive costs for a hybrid stepping motor are potentially higher than for the variable-reluctance type ; a two-phase hybrid motor drive has eight transistors and diodes , but a three-phase variable-reluctance motor drive has only three transistors and diodes . |
| 9 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 10 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 11 | Official estimates put the turnout at 47.7 per cent of the electorate ( 5 percentage points higher than for the 1988 elections — see pp. 36347-48 ) , but independent observers claimed that the turnout was unusually low , with reports of as little as 10 per cent in some rural areas . |
| 12 | United States unemployment is higher than for the past five years . |
| 13 | By 1719 there were eleven , a figure which would have been higher but for the continuing war with Sweden and the very strained relations with Great Britain which then existed . |
| 14 | The evidence for this stage , Morgan and Engels believed , was stronger than for the first two stages . |
| 15 | Their hatred for each other was even greater than for the capitalist enemy , and they were constantly locked in internecine warfare in which they accused each other.of a battery of heinous crimes . |
| 16 | While the electoral strength of Communism was still infinitesimal in contrast to that of the Labour Party , it was greater than for the past decade . |
| 17 | Doubtless the number of victims of this particular form of surgical homicide would have been greater but for the American Food and Drug Administration , whose officials promptly and wisely proscribed the procedure . |