Example sentences of "high than [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All samples contained detectable material in assays using LW60 ; in general , concentrations measured with this antibody were higher than with the other antibodies , and in particular there were higher concentrations in tumour compared with normal tissue extracts . |
| 2 | This factor serves to distinguish driving cases from those of deaths resulting from a single punch , and also to bolster the argument that the penalties for the former should be higher than for the latter . |
| 3 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 4 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 5 | Chevron 's net profits for the first quarter of this year ( adjusted for changes in accounting ) were $101m , 47% higher than for the same period a year earlier . |
| 6 | The fees for a fuller report are , of course , higher than for the society 's valuation report , because the surveyor will spend more time both inspecting the property and preparing a fuller report suitable for your needs . |
| 7 | As Table 6.1 below shows , the proportion of temporary hotel and catering staff who can be described as working on that basis " involuntarily " is lower , and the proportion who can be classified as working on that basis " voluntarily " is higher than for the generality of the temporary labour force . |
| 8 | Residential work declined for the third successive month , although it has to be said that the average monthly value since the start of the year is higher than for the last five months of 1992 . |
| 9 | The transistor bridge bipolar drive circuit requires four transistor/diode pairs per phase , whereas the simple unipolar drive requires only one pair per phase , so drive costs for a hybrid stepping motor are potentially higher than for the variable-reluctance type ; a two-phase hybrid motor drive has eight transistors and diodes , but a three-phase variable-reluctance motor drive has only three transistors and diodes . |
| 10 | The minimum in the potential function will therefore be at a shorter internuclear distance , and the vibration frequency will be higher than for the molecule . |
| 11 | United States unemployment is higher than for the past five years . |
| 12 | higher than for the rest of England and Wales . |
| 13 | Official estimates put the turnout at 47.7 per cent of the electorate ( 5 percentage points higher than for the 1988 elections — see pp. 36347-48 ) , but independent observers claimed that the turnout was unusually low , with reports of as little as 10 per cent in some rural areas . |
| 14 | In these circumstances investors are continuing to cast an eye over convertibles — the yield can be considerably higher than on the underlying equity and yet the premium on the conversion price need not be too large . |
| 15 | She loved the way she could jump much higher than on the Earth . |
| 16 | If this seems an abstruse form of cultivation it is not one that is limited to modern agriculture , but can be found in many suburban gardens where , acre for acre , the concentrations of both fertilizer and pesticide are higher than on the average arable farm . |
| 17 | ( There is always a danger of pinning in any kayak or canoe but on rivers the chances of getting trapped in a boat are , of course , much higher than on the sea . ) |
| 18 | The average surface temperature on Venus is also much higher than on the Earth , 730 K instead of 288 K. The troposphere extends up to an altitude of about 60 km , and in its lower 50 km or so the lapse-rate is adiabatic . |
| 19 | In the first 20 days of December , car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991 . |
| 20 | The SNP vote is higher than at the last three elections , but it is a soft vote , and still well below the figure it reached in October 1974 . |
| 21 | Temperatures at the lake-beds in about 6 m depths were higher than at the surface when ice was present , rising from 1°C in mid-May to about 3°C in late July . |
| 22 | The minimum fell somewhere between maternal ages 20 and 35 years and , from the minimum , the proportion of still births increased again towards older maternal age where , in most samples , it became higher than at the younger end of the maternal age scale . |
| 23 | Given that the group is expected to have made profits for the current year , the net assets will be higher than at the last account date and as the company is being purchased on a multiple of earnings we should consider stripping out the excess assets . |
| 24 | Oil prices remained 35 per cent higher than at the same time the previous year , the prospect of increased trade with Saudi Arabia and Iran opened up and major development projects , such as the expansion of the Das Island gas liquefaction plant and Dubai 's dhow wharfage scheme , recommenced . |
| 25 | The value of exports in the last three months was 13 per cent higher than at the corresponding stage last year , and volume alone was 11 per cent up , while imports were 20 per cent more in value and 15 per cent up by volume . |
| 26 | If one takes the narrow definition of manufacturing investment , which excludes a range of investment that is made by manufacturing companies in services that no longer count as manufacturing investment but which they used to do in-house , the average for the past six years was £10.9 billion — much higher than under the previous Labour Government . |
| 27 | The number of reported cases was thirty-eight per cent higher than during the years 1916 — 17 and 1922 — 3 ( Table 3.7 ) . |
| 28 | The latest government figures show that incidents of Salmonella , the most common type of food poisoning , reached an all-time high last month , even higher than during the Salmonella-in-eggs scandal . |
| 29 | The Financial Times itself , the er trading profit was up ten percent , despite having to cope with an advertisement volume which is now higher than during the er seventy four recession . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |