Example sentences of "high than [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , company liquidation rates ( insolvencies as a proportion of the total number of companies ) are higher than personal sector repossessions in relation to the number of mortgages outstanding . |
| 2 | There was a significant main effect of judgment task , F(1,35)=5.22 , p<0.05 , mean accident estimates being 0.98 points higher than mean risk ratings . |
| 3 | The full employment situation of the 1950s provided trades unions with the power to extract wage rises from employers which were higher than increased productivity . |
| 4 | Alexis is at fault in ranking imperial power and dignity higher than sacerdotal power , but the power of the priesthood descends from God and not from kings . |
| 5 | In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company . |
| 6 | THE Post Office warned yesterday that this year 's profits will be affected by higher than usual cost increases , including the latest pay deal for Royal Mail staff this year . |
| 7 | A thumbnail sketch of the average councillor would present him as white , male , middle-aged , middle-class , and with a higher than usual level of education . |
| 8 | All this points to a higher than usual intelligence quotient . ’ |
| 9 | They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work , which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness . |
| 10 | Continental lithosphere stands higher than oceanic lithosphere because continental crust is both of greater thickness and lower density than oceanic crust . |
| 11 | Associated with this is a higher than average birth rate , a comparatively high level of natural increase , relatively heavy out-migration and a young population age structure . |
| 12 | And there is no doubt in my mind that this infant is of higher than average intelligence . |
| 13 | There are reasons , therefore , why Britain might be expected to have had a somewhat higher than average share of its workforce in manufacturing industry . |
| 14 | The explanation is not that the occupations concerned contain a substantially higher than average share of temporary workers , but rather that a higher than average proportion of the temporary workers concerned supply their services via an agency . |
| 15 | ‘ This is a much higher than average response . |
| 16 | The explanation is not that the occupations concerned contain a substantially higher than average share of temporary workers , but rather that a higher than average proportion of the temporary workers concerned supply their services via an agency . |
| 17 | However we have a higher than average proportion of 25-39 year olds and 60-69 year olds . |
| 18 | It may be thought that the highest-scoring universities in this list attract a higher than average proportion of indigenous students with local area research interests , but examination of the names of thesis authors from Strathclyde and Dundee universities , and confirmatory personal communications with the relevant departments , suggest that many of their students are not of local origin , but have come to the universities from overseas . |
| 19 | However , the LFS also showed a higher than average level of temporary working amongst certain highly skilled workers , most notably teachers and nurses . |
| 20 | This Chair , has er , been a particularly difficult year with a , with a higher than average level of er , sickness , er amongst staff . |
| 21 | The firmness of the Polychromos Pastels is due to their slightly higher than average binder content ; this accounts for the crayons ' notable strength and low dust factor , reducing accidental breakage and keeping the hands relatively clean during use . |
| 22 | Wordsworth also gives a description of a family spinning in the sunshine in The Brothers , but the Lake District has a higher than average rainfall and in wet and windy weather spinners no doubt sought shelter where it was available . |
| 23 | Higher than average seed rates with close planting are used . |
| 24 | It should be noted , however , that the group of 27 authorities who had training/development/personnel officers , all of whom were categorized as providing a higher than average amount of training , were varied in size of establishment . |
| 25 | They may , however , have contained within their ranks a higher than average representation of women , and historians have recently begun to recognize the importance of mothers as transmitters of Puritan values from one generation to the next . |
| 26 | This produces in some islands higher than average demand and in others lower than average demand . |
| 27 | But any individual market or island may experience somewhat higher or lower demand than average , those with lower than average demand cancelling out those with higher than average demand . |
| 28 | In the pre-1965 period a long run of higher than average precipitation allowed the spread northward of rain-fed cultivation , dominated by millet , and at the same time the increased populations placed more pressure on the vegetation for fuelwood . |
| 29 | However , the catering department ( which comprises the customer restaurant , tea-room , coffee bar and staff canteen ) has suffered for several years from higher than average food cost percentages and labour turnover . |
| 30 | The facts — that Chrissie has been caught taking food home , the higher than average food costs , etc. — show that things have n't been going entirely according to plan , but what are the causes ? |