Example sentences of "[adv] higher [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The average age of the overseas membership is somewhat higher that the UK average as there are very few younger members to join these branches .
2 The apparatus is then pumped out and sealed under vacuum at the point A. Sufficient mercury is then added to enclose the polymer and extend into the capillary , after which the tube is sealed at B , and placed in a thermostat at a temperature somewhat higher than the melting temperature of the polymer .
3 His contract contained a clause granting him creative control over the films and a final say on editing , and a salary of over $1 million per film and 50 per cent of each film 's box-office revenue , a profit participation scale somewhat higher than the others ' .
4 In conclusion , research over eight decades has demonstrated the predictive validity of ability tests to be high , or certainly much higher than an interview .
5 It 's , it 's , it 's marched with the capital and that 's why erm the capital value of our investments is so much higher than the cost .
6 Crack use , however , may be much higher than the figures for seizures indicate if ‘ crack ’ is taken to include ‘ freebase . ’
7 The now defunct sluice gates are still in place at the head of the race , which is much higher than the Ell Brook .
8 The external appearance of the building is most unusual , with a sturdy , embattled tower at the west end of the south aisle , and a big chancel much higher than the nave .
9 We lend money secretly to whoever needs it but charge interest much higher than the Lombards or Venetians .
10 And indeed , in efforts to des to also confirm our reasonableness in the figure that we 've put forward , despite the fact that it 's much higher than the counties , I have included in my submission , paragraph thirty nine , that there are a number of factors we could have taken into account , but have n't have chosen not to do so , er which would have in fact upped the dwelling requirement .
11 And these latter values are very much higher than the values obtainable on the old system .
12 The Albanian birth rate was much higher than the birth rate of Serbs and Montenegrins , and the composition of the population steadily shifted in their favour .
13 In each of these cases , the proportion of temporary workers who could be described as " voluntary " temporary workers ( i.e. not wanting a permanent job ) was much higher than the proportion who could be described as " involuntary " ( i.e. unable to get a permanent job ) .
14 I mean the lowest turn out in any of the constituencies in , in the general election was much higher than the turn out in local government , I think the lowest turn out in any individual constituency was about fifty four percent in the general election .
15 The values obtained are still much higher than the estimates from the Williams , Landel , Ferry ( WLF ) equation .
16 In ( i ) above , the costs of delivery to the seller might be much higher than the costs of collection to the buyer .
17 The inter-censal decade 1961–71 saw some very heavy losses : Liverpool recorded a population loss of 18.2 per cent of its population in the 1960s , Manchester 17.9 per cent , Newcastle upon Tyne 17.6 per cent and Birmingham 8.6 per cent — much higher than the losses of the 1950s .
18 But these overall success rates are much higher than the pass rates at individual examination sessions , because many candidates ' progress through the examinations is impeded because they have to resit .
19 Even in times of rapid inflation , interest rates are generally so much higher than the rate of price inflation that saving up to buy later normally works out better value for money .
20 The entropy of gases is much higher than the entropy of solids .
21 Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas .
22 This is still much higher than the doses predicted by John Dunster and others at the time .
23 However , there is one time of the year when the stakes are much higher and the rules are correspondingly different .
24 The bidirectional reflectance is usually higher if the view is towards the sun , rather than away from it ( , , ) .
25 One of my shoulders is like higher than the other .
26 Although the gastrin release in response to wine was diminished compared with controls it was still higher than the response to ethanol .
27 The Buckinghamshire ratios were £71 per thousand in 1515 , £68 in 1524 and £79 in 1522 when the average for just about half of Berkshire was only marginally higher than the £88 for the complete county in 1515 .
28 The prevalence of vertebral fractures in women with rheumatoid arthritis aged over 65 is probably higher than the 12% found in the younger women in this study , and clinicians should be aware of the possibility of vertebral fractures in all patients with rheumatoid arthritis .
29 Maximum depletion occurs between 20 and 22 km , slightly higher than the level of strongest depletion in Antarctica , which lies between 16 and 18 km .
30 He , who had been fêted in Munich , had talked with the elector and other noblemen , and been treated with the respect due to a great artist , now had to take his place in the archiepiscopal pecking-order — below the valets , and only slightly higher than the cooks .
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