Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Values of the order of 10 6 g mol -1 are now accepted without question , but the accuracy of the measurements is much lower than for simple molecules . |
| 2 | For relationships between Imperial units ( Example 98 ) success rates were low , 30 per cent or less , rather lower than for metric units . |
| 3 | The estimated reservation wages increase with age up to about 35 years and then decrease with the men aged over 55 , with estimated reservation wages for both periods which are lower than for teenage men . |
| 4 | Concrete blocks should be laid in a 1:3 cement/sand mix , and mixed a little stiffer than for absorbent materials . |
| 5 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |
| 6 | The confidence intervals show that the relative risks among the unoccupied groups were always larger than for social classes I and II . |
| 7 | All last week he had been happier than for thirty years ; he was in love , overwhelmed with the charms of Emily Dawson and the outrageous hope that she might return his affection and become his wife . |
| 8 | Similarly , the approach angle is a lot shallower than for other jets — about two degrees , judged by the PAPIs showing three reds and a pink . |
| 9 | For better and for worse reasons as she had divined as a girl . |
| 10 | If you ask what is the worst that might foreseeably happen , the answer at the start of 1991 is bleaker than for many years past . |
| 11 | In these cases the degree course requirements will be higher than for other courses . |
| 12 | Buyers are attracted to the glamorous provenance of works recovered from the sea bed and prices are generally higher than for similar objects without such watery origins . |
| 13 | As we have seen ( on pp. 46–7 ) , the cost of weekly collection is high — making APR on the small sums of credit usually involved much higher than for monthly-payment types of credit . |
| 14 | The supplement states that ‘ sometimes the rates are higher than for social classes IV and V and sometimes lower , irrespective of whether or not a social class gradient exists across the rest of the classes . |
| 15 | Because the coupon on index-linked gilts is much lower than on conventional gilts , this means that the duration of index-linked gilts will be much higher than for conventional gilts with the same maturity . |
| 16 | Mr Roller said Dresdner 's operating profit would have been higher but for increased write-offs in its securities operations . |
| 17 | The ordering of YAC probes was harder than for other probes types in that the highly variable length of the YACs meant that some YACs were contained entirely within others , and some YACs were chimeric , requiring some manual adjustment of the order . |
| 18 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 19 | It can be used wet into dry paint or wet into wet , although once it is dry it is longer than for other types of paint , being anything from a day to a week depending on the colour . |
| 20 | The impact on older women is greater than for older men , as dominant sexist ideas have created the belief that being attractive is more important for women . |