Example sentences of "term and in [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Sweden , Denmark , Belgium , Switzerland , West Germany , Austria , France and the Netherlands all received more applications for asylum from refugees than the UK both in absolute terms and in proportion to population .
2 The possession of power by companies is principally an attribute of size , and so the companies with which this book is concerned are usually large both in absolute terms and in relation to the industry or industries in which they operate .
3 As Kaysen notes , ‘ [ w ] here new plants are placed both in regional terms and in relation to existing centers of population affects the balance of regional development and the character of urban and suburban growth ’ .
4 The package was the largest of its kind — both in nominal terms and in relation to the size of the economy — in Japanese history .
5 There are other matters however , which seem to me to be much more significant in statistical terms and in relation to the total level of provision
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