Example sentences of "[adj -er] than [art] [adj] figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition spokesmen claimed that the real turn-out was far lower than the official figure . |
| 2 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 3 | This was considerably more than the anecdotal evidence and clinical experience had suggested ( less than one death per year ) , although slightly lower than the national figure . |
| 4 | This is of course very much smaller than the comparative figure for the previous year of £321,715 , but it should also be looked at in the context of the budget for 1991–92 which had predicted a loss of £117,000 . |
| 5 | Rangoon-based diplomats were reported as saying that the number of political detainees was much higher than the official figure . |
| 6 | No-one disputes that the real number of drug users is much higher than the official figure . |
| 7 | erm , why is it so much higher than the similar figure , the same figure for , my sub team , when I had the same number of stage one decisions and one more stage two decision ? |
| 8 | The bronze antenna in the statue , 6ft higher than the twice-lifesize figure , is to be a flagpole on which a real flag will be raised and lowered daily . |
| 9 | In 1971 the UK was second only to the USA as a home base for multinational companies ; overseas production by British-based multinationals as a proportion of domestic output in 1977 was , at 40 per cent , higher than the corresponding figure for any other national economy except Switzerland ; and in 1971 nearly 20 per cent of UK output was produced by overseas based companies . |
| 10 | This figure accounts for almost 5% of Grampian 's total exports , and is significantly higher than the national figure of 2% . |
| 11 | Which is still substantially higher than the national figure , and substantially higher than the figure being proposed by the Department of the Environment for North Yorkshire . |
| 12 | It estimated in May 1952 that British overseas defence spending was ten times greater than the prewar figure . |
| 13 | Moreover , only Wiltshire experienced a cutback in growth rate between the decades that was greater than the national figure , while 15 of the 20 areas saw a positive movement in growth rate against the national trend . |