Example sentences of "compares with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Dusit Hotels and Resorts , Thailand ( eight hotels ) : has planted one tree for each of its hotel rooms , separates and recycles waste , uses unbleached and undyed cotton for sheets and towels in new hotels , has installed silver reflects , lowering the number of light bulbs used by half ; uses solar panels for hot water supply , has fitted water flow regulators in taps and showers and has introduces a ‘ wet-down , soap-up and rinse-off ’ campaign to promote water conservation , sponsors environmental seminars and is now initiating a ‘ green wing ’ scheme — a wing of guest rooms in every hotel converted to an eco-friendly environment , to be monitored over two years to see how energy consumption compares with standard rooms . |
| 2 | That compares with 41 wins from the equivalent period in 1992 . |
| 3 | This compares with 18 litres a minute or more from a storage system . |
| 4 | Overall during last year , this is to the end of , of November actually because fin figures are n't available for the end of the year , the reduction was four point nine percent , which compares with four point three percent in the previous year , so not only are they still going down , they 're actually going down slightly more than they were in the previous year and that must be encouraging . |
| 5 | This compares with 37 percent of new marriages which end in divorce . |
| 6 | This compares with similar losses in the same period of last year of $17m . |
| 7 | From October 1987 to September 1988 , cigar sales totalled £398 million and other tobacco sales ( including pipe tobacco ) £545 million : this compares with total cigarette sales of £6,924 million [ 2 ] . |
| 8 | That compares with total departures last year of 1,750 . |
| 9 | Lothian 's spending limit was set at £588.4 million , compares with planned spending of £608 million . |
| 10 | Net profits were were $595m , which compares with net profit from operations of $556m in the 1991 first quarter , when the company of course reported a big loss because of the change in the method it used to account for employee benefits . |
| 11 | Expressed in this way , linguistic foregrounding becomes an exercise in self-indulgence , whereas these writers are particularly anxious about how literary discourse relates to other discourses and how literary plotting compares with other systems of ordering . |
| 12 | How do you think your sexual performance compares with other men 's ? |
| 13 | The transaction compares with other headline City property deals , such as the £143million sale of the listed Financial Times building to Obhayashi and the £140million sale of the River Plate building at Finsbury Circus . |
| 14 | This compares with head movement times that are usually orders of magnitude greater , and the direct access throughput is often roughly doubled if this technique is used . |
| 15 | The findings of 47 per-cent who preferred nuclear compares with 50 per-cent for fossil fuels . |
| 16 | That compares with 540,000 people in the claimant count who were not unemployed by the ILO definition . |
| 17 | This compares with relative figures of 95.6 for Turkey , 84.9 for West Germany , 75.8 for Spain , 44.0 for Greece and 40.0 for the Netherlands ( NACRO Briefing 1990a , Council of Europe 1989 ) . |
| 18 | This compares with past culture capitals such as Glasgow , which spent £86 million including capital costs to promote and mount its celebrations , which yielded a net return of £15 million . |
| 19 | This compares with some loan sharks who can charge in excess of 10,000 per cent ! |
| 20 | This compares with actuarial figures of expectation of life of 45 years and an expectation of working life of 37 years . |
| 21 | This compares with Scottish Figures of 15.3% and 84.7% for small and large companies respectively . |