Example sentences of "compared [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was improvement in all Commercial lines when compared with both the first and the final quarters of 1992 . |
| 2 | Patients with established colorectal cancer had a lower faecal concentration of the primary bile acid chenodeoxycholate and were found to excrete a higher proportion of secondary bile acids , compared with both controls and polyps . |
| 3 | There was a tendency towards lower concentration of IgG3 in healthy ulcerative colitis twins compared with both controls and Crohn 's disease or healthy Crohn 's disease twins . |
| 4 | AT A top price of £20-£30 — ‘ through the roof ’ says Ian Hooker , with tongue in cheek — commemorative and advertising matchbox grips still cost peanuts compared with even the cheapest London saleroom collectables . |
| 5 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 6 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 7 | In America , for example , 120 perfumes were launched in 1988 and 59 in 1989 , compared with just 30 in 1980 . |
| 8 | Richard Holland , chief executive , announcing a 24 p.c. rise in full-year pre-tax profits to £4.01m , said the Far East , principally Japan , accounted for 20 p.c. of the group 's profits , compared with just 8 p.c. in 1990 . |
| 9 | After a month in the country which , as Communist Party boss , he controlled for 13 years in the '70s and '80s , his opinion poll rating is 70 per cent , compared with just eight per cent for Mr Gamsakhurdia . |
| 10 | A major difference between the French and UK Less Favoured Areas is the division of the French LFA into four zones of handicap compared with just two in the UK ( one zone only until recently ) . |
| 11 | UK breeders face rates of 17.5 per cent compared with just 2.7 pc in Ireland and 5.5 pc in France . |
| 12 | Net earnings per share fell 5% to $0.55 in the quarter and was $2.24 compared with just $0.06 in the nine months . |
| 13 | Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year . |
| 14 | The difference was that inequality was more pronounced in the Midland one , where the two top men had upwards of £1,000 apiece , in contrast to Exeter , where the highest was £300 , and altogether there were twenty-nine three-figure fortunes compared with just twenty in Coventry ( see Table 2.10 ) . |
| 15 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 16 | As a result , remand prisoners in 1999 accounted for 22 per cent of the total population in custody , compared with just under 12 per cent in 1976 . |
| 17 | And in reality , as the Criminal Statistics for 1990 bear out ( Home Office , 1991a ) , less than a third of such cases would have been dealt with in the magistrates ' courts by means of a custodial penalty at all ( compared with just under two-thirds in the Crown Court ) . |
| 18 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 19 | Just under half of lone older women compared with just under two-fifths of single older men had incomes on or below the poverty line . |
| 20 | In 1987 government debt worth 0.7bn was bought , compared with just 0.4bn of company securities . |
| 21 | The Chinese currently spend 10 to 20 per cent over and above their capital outlay on servicing their new computers over three years compared with just three per cent in the US . |
| 22 | That number has now increased to some 340,000. 95% of patients are detained without their consent , at a rate of 250 per 100,000 population , compared with just 2.5 per 100,000 in Europe . |
| 23 | In 1991 , 65pc of British homes had one , compared with just 2pc 10 years earlier . |
| 24 | Increased taxation on oil companies was expected to bring in 31,000 million francs CFA , compared with just over 4,000 million francs CFA in 1989 . |
| 25 | The FAO report estimated that a total of 42 million acres of tropical forest were cleared in 1990 — more than an acre every second — as compared with just 30 million in 1980 . |
| 26 | Pets are pampered in East Anglia , where families splash out £4.20 on their animals , compared with just £1.61 in the north of England and a UK average of £2.10 . |
| 27 | Home computers can also be found in one in five households , compared with just one in eight seven years ago . |
| 28 | Cedric Brown , BG 's chief executive , said that competitors had taken over 27 per cent of total contract gas sales last year , compared with just 5 per cent in May 1991 . |
| 29 | Over two thirds of Japanese car workers operate in multi-skilled teams , compared with just 10 per cent in the UK , and the land of the risen yen puts in two and a half times as many hours training its new workers in those skills . |
| 30 | Once the vertebrates were established they quickly acquired hard parts displaying great complexity when compared with most invertebrate phyla ( we should except the arthropods , perhaps ) . |