Example sentences of "[art] [adj] than average [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mentally handicapped ’ is the most common term used in Great Britain to describe a section of the public who possess a lower than average level of intelligence . |
| 2 | Yes , because we get a larger than average slice of what is available . |
| 3 | Betty , suspect , generates a larger than average amount of her own static electricity aggravated by pushing the carriage to and fro and she has begun to discharge herself through the machine . |
| 4 | Such issues were not covered by policy , and these appeals tended to have a better than average chance of success ( 41 per cent as compared with an overall average of 31 per cent ) . |
| 5 | The explanation is not that the occupations concerned contain a substantially higher than average share of temporary workers , but rather that a higher than average proportion of the temporary workers concerned supply their services via an agency . |
| 6 | However we have a higher than average proportion of 25-39 year olds and 60-69 year olds . |
| 7 | It may be thought that the highest-scoring universities in this list attract a higher than average proportion of indigenous students with local area research interests , but examination of the names of thesis authors from Strathclyde and Dundee universities , and confirmatory personal communications with the relevant departments , suggest that many of their students are not of local origin , but have come to the universities from overseas . |
| 8 | However , the LFS also showed a higher than average level of temporary working amongst certain highly skilled workers , most notably teachers and nurses . |
| 9 | This Chair , has er , been a particularly difficult year with a , with a higher than average level of er , sickness , er amongst staff . |
| 10 | They may , however , have contained within their ranks a higher than average representation of women , and historians have recently begun to recognize the importance of mothers as transmitters of Puritan values from one generation to the next . |
| 11 | There was a relationship between the amount of training undertaken and allocation of a staff member 's time , so that all of the 27 authorities who employed specifically named training officers engaged in a higher than average number of training programmes . |
| 12 | On Saturday officers were kept busy with a higher than average number of shoplifting incidents in the town centre . |
| 13 | It should be noted , however , that the group of 27 authorities who had training/development/personnel officers , all of whom were categorized as providing a higher than average amount of training , were varied in size of establishment . |
| 14 | Geophysical studies and Quaternary research have a greater than average chance of publication in the journal Nature , probably related to the paradigmatic nature of the former , and the human impact and immediacy of the latter . |
| 15 | However , the lack of any service history is a major drawback when buying a six-year-old car with a greater than average degree of mechanical complexity . |
| 16 | Natural prevention is in operation to the extent that a greater than average proportion of the affected children will be miscarried or stillborn . |
| 17 | Predictably , a greater than average proportion of such children do develop symptoms of schizophrenia — or of some related ‘ borderline ’ condition , such as schizotypal personality disorder . |
| 18 | One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average . |