Example sentences of "[adj] compare with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how does that compare with the same period last year ? ’ |
| 2 | ( This compares with the total UK electronics industry , which includes instruments , components and consumer electronics . |
| 3 | Normally , to become a permanent resident in the Bahamas under category I , an individual needs to invest a minimum of $500,000 and keep it there for 10 years ; this compares with the five years for an investor in Sandyport Marina . |
| 4 | This compares with the 1987 figure of 3.6 per cent , which rose to 3.9 per cent for both 1989 and 1990 . ’ |
| 5 | This compares with the 1975-76 epidemic which peaked at 350 cases per 100,000 and the 1968 flu epidemic which reached an incredible 918 cases per 100,000 of the population at its worst . |
| 6 | BSAC spokesman Kendal McDonald claims that this compares with the 35 fatalities a year associated with angling , 39 with boating , and 44 with swimming . |
| 7 | Again basically plastic and glass , with painted and sculpted detail , the full ( actually only three-sided ) model was 9 feet ( 2.75m ) at the base and 2 feet ( 75cm ) high , to represent a building some 1.7 miles ( 2.75km ) wide and 2500 feet ( 750m ) high , approaching 200 storeys in the middle ( this compares with the 110-storey twin blocks of the World Trade Centre in lower Manhattan ) — the Tyrell HQ is also doubled but only optically . |
| 8 | This compares with the 1990 figures of 26% in Grampian and 29% in Tayside . |
| 9 | November new car sales rose by 6.3% to 106,902 and new commercial vehicle sales rose by 15.3% to 15,920 compared with the same month in 1991 . |
| 10 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 11 | This compared with the latest forecast for the 1990 deficit of L140,000,000 million , representing 10.8 per cent of GDP . |
| 12 | And Stena Sealink claimed that the total market had grown by a mammoth 39pc over the first four months of 1993 compared with the previous year . |
| 13 | ‘ Quite a few compared with the one-eyed places we 'll be going through . |
| 14 | In order for plates to behave in the manner proposed the lithosphere of which they are composed must be sufficiently rigid compared with the underlying asthenosphere for stress to be transmitted from one side to the other . |
| 15 | Eight hours after injection , integrated postprandial CCK release was not significantly different compared with the first measurement , without treatment ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 16 | Thailand increased its rubber exports by 31 per cent in the first half of 1985 compared with the same period the year before — yet its rubber revenues fell by eight per cent1 . |
| 17 | Tobacco released to the market was down 11.3 percent in the first half of 1991 compared with the same period of 1990 and 17.7 percent down compared with the second half of 1990 . |
| 18 | Gross national product fell 5.8 per cent in January-February 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 . |
| 19 | Industrial output fell by 4.5 per cent in the first quarter of 1991 compared with the same period in 1990 , falling in the engineering sector by 14.2 per cent but rising in the food industry by 13 per cent . |
| 20 | Histamine secretion was significantly higher in the ulcer group at day 7 compared with the other groups . |
| 21 | It was unusual compared with the other countries in that it actually represented a decline ( of 2% ) from the 1971 figure . |
| 22 | Another interesting point is that measurements of the velocity dispersion of the galaxies in HCG62 suggest that they have drifted inwards by a factor of about three compared with the dark matter . |
| 23 | Away from the wall , on the other hand , the turbulence generates a Reynolds stress , large compared with the viscous stress , in the usual way . |
| 24 | It is frequently large compared with the viscous term , with the result that the mean velocity distribution is very different from the corresponding laminar flow . |
| 25 | However , the peaks due to atoms in different sites frequently coincide by chance , as the shift range ( up to about 10 eV ) is not very large compared with the ultimate linewidth ( ∼ 0·2 eV ) . |
| 26 | The patchiness develops throughout the energy cascade ; as the eddies get smaller , so the fraction of the volume in which they are active decreases ( though the size of a patch is at each stage large compared with the corresponding eddy size ) . |
| 27 | Even they could consider themselves lucky compared with the shackled Italians torpedoed on the Arandora Star on their way to Canada , or other internees beaten and robbed on their way to Australia by British officers and NCOs on the Dunera who gave a pretty good imitation of Hitler 's Stormtroopers . |
| 28 | These compare with the actual rates of 1.6 ( 95% confidence interval 1.0 to 2.6 ) and 3.5 ( 2.6 to 4.7 ) per 100 000 for probable and broad Alzheimer 's disease for the 1981 census year . |
| 29 | In the House of Representatives , controlled by the Democratic Party since 1956 , the party won 259 seats , a net loss of eight compared with the 1990 result . |
| 30 | These differences may be due to the relative increase in mitochondrial genomes in the mutant strain ( mtDNA/nuclear DNA 1.5 compared with the wild-type strain ) . |