Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 2 | In all other age groups below retirement age the proportion of temporary workers is lower than the average for all age groups . |
| 3 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 4 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 5 | The archbishop of 1101 , with a clear command which required his obedience , was a different man from the Anselm of 1097 who asked for nothing better than an opportunity for escape . |
| 6 | But you know the Labour Party is worse than the Conservatives for traditions are n't they ? |
| 7 | One reason that the monthly indicators look worse than the figures for total GNP , is that industrial production and business sales exclude certain factors that bolster GNP . |
| 8 | She was inspired , it is argued , by nothing higher than a desire for self-advertisement and for the applause of Voltaire and his fellow-writers in Western Europe . |
| 9 | Gastric juice ammonium concentrations were similar in the H pylori negative uraemic patients ( median 3 , range 0.5–11 mmol/l ) and H pylori positive non-uraemic patients ( 5 , range 1–11 ) ( p=0.2 ) , and both were significantly higher than the values for the H pylori negative non-uraemic patients ( 0.7 , range 0.1–1.4 ) ( p<0.02 for each ) . |
| 10 | higher than the plans for the current year and will provide for further expansion in health services . |
| 11 | The Buckinghamshire ratios were £71 per thousand in 1515 , £68 in 1524 and £79 in 1522 when the average for just about half of Berkshire was only marginally higher than the £88 for the complete county in 1515 . |
| 12 | Crack use , however , may be much higher than the figures for seizures indicate if ‘ crack ’ is taken to include ‘ freebase . ’ |
| 13 | Unemployment is higher than the average for Scotland . |
| 14 | Economic indicators show that Cheshire claims to be one of the richest counties in the North of England , with hourly earnings considerably higher than the average for England as a whole . |
| 15 | Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas . |
| 16 | According to the Labour Force Survey , the proportion of agency workers working on a temporary basis because they do not want permanent jobs is considerably higher than the average for all temporary workers and that the proportion of agency secretarial/office workers doing so is still higher ( see Table 5.1 ) . |
| 17 | The 1991 figure is some 9% higher than the average for years 1981–85 . |
| 18 | Both of these groups had non-completion rates which were higher than the average for all students . |
| 19 | A forecast from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development suggests that Japan 's economic growth in 1993 will be higher than the average for the six other leading industrial nations . |
| 20 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 21 | The figure of 22.8% of claims at the low rate in the sample is higher than the rate for Berkshire as a whole ( 14.8% ) in the same period because the largest practice in the sample used a deputy for 53% of its night visits . |
| 22 | However , a baby seat is safer than a carrycot for your baby . |
| 23 | A cruise descent is kinder than a glide for the engine : try to make this your normal procedure except when inappropriate e.g. on a practice forced landing . |
| 24 | The total number of people waiting for NHS treatment in the UK rose to more than one million in March 1990. 25% of inpatients wait for longer than a year for treatment . |
| 25 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients are waiting for longer than a year for treatment ; and what was the corresponding figure for 1979 . |
| 26 | Export credit finance should be considered where a project requires capital goods and associated services to be imported because the term of the loan can sometimes be longer than the term for commercial funds |
| 27 | All that said , the case for taking him was still not all that much stronger than the case for leaving him out . |
| 28 | There was an unspoken religious respect for another man 's possessions far stronger than the respect for property in normal society and correspondingly more unpleasant . |
| 29 | As a result , my telephone and fax bill is much greater than the bill for board and lodging . |
| 30 | ( a ) The value of BIOLM and DIOLM should be equal or greater than the value for the defined number of database buffers . |