Example sentences of "than [art] average " in BNC.
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| 1 | They created more scoring opportunities than the average away team and they were not exactly negligent in defence . |
| 2 | Unemployment is higher than the average for Scotland . |
| 3 | Obviously if this is accidental , there is no more chance than the average that it will recur , although if no accident or error has occurred , there may be some likelihood of a recurrence , perhaps one in 10 . |
| 4 | Pregnant women who smoke marijuana also place their children at risk ; they are five times more likely to have deformed or underweight babies than the average . |
| 5 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 6 | Those aged over 55 now have a purchasing power of more than £25 billion annually , spending 13 per cent more than the average on holidays , cars and durables . |
| 7 | Surveys show that where the family head is aged between 55 and 64 , more than the average is spent on home and leisure : 60 per cent more on home improvement , 38 per cent more on furnishings , 26 per cent more on cars and 17 per cent more on holidays . |
| 8 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 9 | greater woodland cover than the average for East Sussex . |
| 10 | Consequently the contribution of petrol lead to blood lead of adults would be higher than the average 24 per cent calculated for Turin . ’ |
| 11 | This , together with house price rises since 1980 , indicated that houses were being sold to buyers on incomes substantially higher than the average in Allegheny West . |
| 12 | However , although absenteeism and turnover are lower , claim the company , than the average for Swedish industry as a whole , it must be borne in mind that the plant is in an area with a low level of industrialisation . |
| 13 | Waiting times for elective treatment in inner London teaching hospitals is higher than the average , although the report noted an improvement in the past year . |
| 14 | London Weather Centre said the cold could continue through to next week , with temperatures as much as four degrees lower than the average 5-7C ( 41F-45 ) . |
| 15 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , if the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is higher than its share of UK population , then that region is relatively more prosperous than the average ; conversely for a lower figure . |
| 18 | Thus the double layer moves more slowly than the average and so yet more growth layers pile up behind it and can not pass . |
| 19 | In Switzerland the limitation period is five years , i.e. is neither more nor less favourable than the average for a dispossessed owner . |
| 20 | Nor should the novelty be exaggerated of abolitionists advancing petitions from a relatively popular base and on grounds of the general interest in 1788 — relatively popular because calculation from Drescher 's estimate of 60,000 signatures in 1788 suggests an average of 600 signatures per petition and , with Manchester producing 10,639 , some were clearly much smaller than the average . |
| 21 | The level of productivity since 1991 , according to WEFA , is 1.5% higher than the average for all recoveries since 1975 . |
| 22 | In 1989 only 13% of single mothers received any maintenance , and average payments were lower , at £14.94 ( $13 ) a week , than the average of £26.81 for all lone parents . |
| 23 | The Royal Africa Company did no worse than other traders in taking slaves across , but its commercial difficulties with its customers were probably worse than the average . |
| 24 | In Cornwall and Worcestershire even the unbeneficed clergy were better off than the average , the overall position being that of an affluent clerical establishment alongside a relatively poor laity . |
| 25 | MITI argues that their guidance has at least prevented maturity rates from getting much longer than the average of four months . |
| 26 | Despite the two-child family becoming the average this century , most women married since 1930 have not had two children : three-quarters had at least one child more or less than the average . |
| 27 | Among women married over age 30 , women in class I and II have more babies than the average . |
| 28 | Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas . |
| 29 | The newer streets were wider than the average of manufacturing towns . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |