Example sentences of "[adv] [art] relatively [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps the relatively high price of the more powerful personal computers needed to run OS/2 has put off budget-minded companies .
2 The next purely Soviet space astronomy satellites will involve only the relatively simple hardware of radio telescopes ( Box above ) .
3 What this means is that only a relatively small proportion of the population is earning and has the burden of supporting a large number of old and young .
4 However , in most cities only a relatively small proportion of jobs lost go elsewhere , most are simply lost .
5 It would not be the number of establishments , since many of these will account for only a relatively small proportion of the total output .
6 As noted above , only a relatively small proportion of Oxfordshire teachers seem to feel threatened to any extent by the scheme .
7 Solihull teachers were strongly so , but it should be recalled that only a relatively small proportion of them had had any direct experience of the process .
8 In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level .
9 The massive surge in house prices in London between 1984 and 1987 provides some indication of the scale of pent-up demand for new housing , only a relatively small fraction of which can be met within London itself .
10 Only a relatively small part of this literature has stressed man 's role as a geomorphic agent , exerting a notable effect on the earth 's crust .
11 The official statistics reveal only a relatively small amount of such violence , yet most women are sufficiently convinced of its prevalence to organize their lives quite carefully in order to protect themselves from being exposed to such violence .
12 My personal feeling is that , once cumulative selection has got itself properly started , we need to postulate only a relatively small amount of luck in the subsequent evolution of life and intelligence .
13 Unfortunately , IPC as proposed is applicable to only a relatively small number of pollutants .
14 As in the UK , only a relatively small number of farmers were interested in training — probably 12–15% .
15 This project was therefore able to draw on findings from only a relatively small number of other experimental services .
16 Listed here are the total populations of those countries where each language has official status — this will overestimate the number of speakers because only a relatively small number of Indians , for example , will actually speak English .
17 This research project examines Southampton , one of the most dynamic of these ‘ sunbelt ’ city regions which throughout the 1970's generated more jobs than any other urban area in England and which has seemingly incurred only a relatively small loss of jobs since the onset of recession .
18 Although the BPVT is a language test , it covers only a relatively narrow range of strictly linguistic abilities — that is , comprehension of single vocabulary items .
19 Following transfection of BHK-21 cells which contain only Oct-1 , the HPV 16 motif directed only a relatively weak level of gene activity whereas the HPV 6 motif was considerably more active ( Figure 5 ) .
20 Having accepted that deviance can become amplified through a positive feedback mechanism , and that the initial acts of deviance on which the system feeds are often quite minor , only a relatively weak explanation of the original deviance is called for .
21 For the authorities , it ensures that only a relatively sanitized version of events gets out ; for the authors , it means that they do not have to perjure themselves , and has the additional benefit that the gaps — and consequently the restraints under which they have had to work — are obvious to their readers .
22 But outside the Nazi Movement , the objective function of the ‘ Führer myth ’ was rather to integrate into the Third Reich , through association with the far more popular and attractive aspects of Nazi rule symbolized by Hitler , the mass of ‘ ordinary ’ and ‘ non-organized ’ Germans for whom the ‘ Jewish Question ’ retained only a relatively low level of importance .
23 One is that policies which are focused primarily on small firms are likely to encourage only a relatively low level of technical innovation .
24 Therefore only a relatively broad range of tasks can hope to assess children 's performance .
25 We shall turn to these three themes shortly , but finally the relatively smooth course of Russian-Belorussian collaboration during NEP should be underlined .
26 The parliamentary party was thus a relatively young group of men , with the most privileged also the youngest .
27 Although there are again differences in the use of scales in different contexts , there is generally a relatively high level of agreement between the two sets of risk ratings .
28 However , as the majority of schemes proposed was to have been in small towns where there was already a relatively good provision of council houses , they have often not been implemented .
29 This is still a relatively small aspect of our operations as yet , but the sector is one of the major growth areas and we can not afford to neglect it .
30 In dealing with the ulema of the earlier period , then , one must first take care not to allow to influence one 's thinking unduly the relatively rigid structure of the hierarchy of the later period and the values and attitudes which this helped to foster .
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