Example sentences of "efficient than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 2 | In other words , a market economy is an efficient way of producing wealth ; the reason it is more efficient than a planned economy in which prices are not competitive is that prices do not convey this information . |
| 3 | Aperture for aperture , a refractor is more efficient than a reflector , and it is also easier to maintain . |
| 4 | Each fruit bristled with invisible barbs , a pin-cushion of spider 's craft and cunning , a defence against predators more efficient than a carapace . |
| 5 | On this occasion at least the KGB were more efficient than the CIA . |
| 6 | The Rover V8 engine , whilst being more powerful , is also more fuel efficient than the 2.25 litre unit . |
| 7 | They concluded Wolvertons ' method was quicker and more efficient than the Ordnance Factories ' . |
| 8 | They were much more efficient than the present-day Russian or US forces . |
| 9 | We know that the eukaryotic cell is much larger and more efficient than the procaryote , carrying more genetic material . |
| 10 | The factory was not necessarily more efficient than the home-based weaver . |
| 11 | The private enterprise sheriffs used by the High Court are paid on results and are considered to be more efficient than the public servant County Court bailiffs who get their salaries regardless of results . |
| 12 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 13 | The air force 's reserves seem much more efficient than the army 's or the navy 's . |
| 14 | By themselves , these facts do not stand as a complete answer to the challenge : if the industrial co-operative form of organisation is more efficient than the conventional form , why is it that the first has not displaced the second but has remained until recently a negligible feature of the economy and , even now , can hardly be said to have become so far of more than marginal importance ? |
| 15 | The fast readers were more efficient than the slow readers in using grammatical predictability and in integrating different ideas in a sentence , but the factor accounting for the largest difference involved word-recognition processes . |
| 16 | SIR — I believe that if a current inventory of known insect and other species was available , descriptive work might be more efficient than the current 20 per cent wastage rate ( due to synonymy ) . |
| 17 | According to the relative specialisation models , both hemispheres can perform a given function but one is faster or more efficient than the other . |
| 18 | If the first state among siblings always leads to a goal , it will be much more efficient than the breadth first version ; but otherwise it may be worse . |
| 19 | Given that the only available pieces of information are the high , low and closing prices , they derived the minimum variance unbiased estimator of Var ( ln ΔF t ) , which is more efficient than the Parkinson estimator . |
| 20 | He concluded that both these estimators exhibited little downward bias , and were much more efficient than the classical estimator in estimating the close to close volatility for the next period . |
| 21 | Carzo and Yanouzas suggested that if work is organised on the basis of small groups or project teams ( therefore narrow spans of control and a tall organisation structure ) group members would be able to plan their work in an orderly manner , encourage participation by all group members in decision-making and monitor the consequences of their decisions better , so that their performance will be more efficient than the work of groups in a flat structure with a wide span of control . |
| 22 | Improvements at Rossendale Ski Centre ( near Manchester ) include an undermat misting system which is far more efficient than the old sprays that tended to take skiers by surprise , drenching them from head to foot . |
| 23 | And er happily we went along in that situation and I 've got to say this er I had shop stewards who even if they were new shop stewards coming into the committee , were n't long in developing the same train of thought as ourselves and , and you know we dealt with things in such a manner but er we were efficient just as efficient , you know , as our members were on the production line , and perhaps a little more efficient than the management in determining times . |
| 24 | Originally a side-show , the new replicators turned out to be so much more efficient than the original crystals that they took over . |
| 25 | Austrians are highly critical of neo-classical theory for its static treatment of markets and its assumption of perfect information ; these assume away the very factors that explain how markets work and why market coordination is more efficient than the alternative of regulation and planning . |
| 26 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 27 | It should be noted that the group relief mechanism described above is more tax efficient than the franked investment income method , though they are not mutually exclusive . |
| 28 | Erm I , I think I might have missed Adam 's point and I was going back to whether the south was more efficient than the north because just tying it in with the seminar we had on managerial farms , were n't there more in the north than in the south ? |
| 29 | Could cars be designed to be much more efficient than the eighteen percent you quote ? |
| 30 | A space blanket , so called because it is a product of space research , is more efficient than an ordinary blanket . |