Example sentences of "compared [prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 4,600 people in Britain have contracted AIDS , of whom half have died , compared with about 600 four years ago . |
| 2 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 3 | As far as education was concerned , for example , Frelimo 's point of departure was an illiteracy rate of 93 per cent , compared with about 50 per cent in Nicaragua . |
| 4 | During the Somoza period , most educational facilities and investment were concentrated in the urban areas , where the rate of illiteracy was given as 28 per cent compared with about 76 per cent in rural areas . |
| 5 | In fact , for a two year old , the former ( water ) limit would give a daily lead intake of about 25 mg , compared with about 10 mg from the latter ( diet ) limit . |
| 6 | A miner 's resting heart rate can be between 40 and 60 beats a minute , compared with about 70 for a typical male . |
| 7 | It is about 21 mm ( nearly an inch ) thick , compared with about 3 mm ( ⅛ in ) over the rest of its body . |
| 8 | Making it clear that short-termism is not an affliction from which Siemens AG suffers , the company says that it expects its loss-making semiconductor division to show a profit in the 1995-96 business year , which starts October 1 1995 : it looks for sales of some $2,000m that year , compared with about $1,187m last fiscal year ; the company aims to achieve profitability via tight cost control , strategic cooperation with other companies and the moving of labour-intensive activities to south-east Asia ; the division 's workforce will be just under 12,000 in 1995-96 compared with some 13,200 at present . |
| 9 | 1600 , average tilled acreage was less than 10 , compared with about 15 in Sussex . |
| 10 | Among the developed countries of the world 11 per cent of the population are over 65 , compared with about 4 per cent in the developing nations ( Laslett 1989 ) . |
| 11 | Parker ( 1987 ) indicates that in Australia 14 per cent of those aged 75 + live in an institution as compared with about 5 per cent in Britain . |
| 12 | This decline is most notable with siblings ; 80 per cent of those aged 70 — 74 report that they have brothers or sisters compared with about 50 per cent of those aged 85 + . |
| 13 | compared with about 30 per cent . |
| 14 | Whites had significantly more in privately rented accommodation ( confirming the census , Table 3 ) and had over half who had lived in their house less than three years , compared with about a quarter of Blacks and Asians ; they also had more than academic qualifications . |
| 15 | An annual expenditure of some £3 million to £10 million might be involved , compared with about £40 million for the 1981 Census . |
| 16 | About 18 per cent of Black families are headed by a lone parent compared with about 15 per cent of white families ( Haskey , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | Within observational uncertainties these are the same as the solar relative abundances , which are about 0.16 for He/H 2 and about 8 × 10 -4 for C/H 2 , compared with about 0.11 and about 8 × 10 -4 respectively for the Jovian atmosphere . |
| 18 | during the period of this Government at an annual rate of about £550 million compared with about £350 million under the Labour Government , using real-terms figures . |
| 19 | ( The annualized UK rate of retail price inflation to October 1990 was 10.9 per cent , compared with about 8 per cent in June 1989 . ) |
| 20 | Manufacturing output increased by around 10 per cent , and manufactures now accounted for about 80 per cent of all exports ( compared with about 33 per cent in 1980 ) . |
| 21 | Inflation fell to an annualized figure of 15 per cent , compared with about 70 per cent in 1991 . |
| 22 | Water absorption from rice based solutions in the secretory state was about 70% of that in the normal state compared with about 50% for all other ORS . |
| 23 | It spends at least £55 million a year on the upkeep and maintenance of its buildings ( mainly funded by its congregations ) compared with about £4 million which comes through state aid . |
| 24 | Speaking at SE 's headquarters in Glasgow , he said the new estimate compared with about £28 million earned in 1992 by Scots companies which had made initial ventures into the emerging markets , helped by SE 's energy group and Scottish Trade International . |
| 25 | The US and Japanese markets each represent about 30 per cent of world capitalisation compared with about 8 per cent for the UK , so are general US or Japanese funds really specialised ? |
| 26 | Although average rates of commission continue to fall , the minimum commission has tended to rise to around £20-£30 , compared with about £10 before Big Bang , showing the extent to which the small investor has lost out . |
| 27 | The new invention is called MAX 10 and will determine a melting point in an average of three minutes compared to about 15 minutes using conventional methods . |
| 28 | This decline is possibly of post-war origin , as in 1949 Thorney Island , the marshes around Pagham Harbour and Selsey , and Rye Harbour still held a total of about 150 pairs compared to about 35 in 1967 . |
| 29 | The plunge of Sterling means you only get 16 Austrian schillings to the pound , compared to about 20 last winter . |
| 30 | About 70,000 titles a year are published in the UK , compared to about 56,000 in Germany , Britain 's nearest competitor , and 36,000 in France . |