Example sentences of "than [art] national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a method of fulfilling a deep desire of the public to be deceived by the politician into thinking that public expenditure can be increased faster than the national income is increased without their noticing any diminution of their own rate of increase in purchasing power and standard of living . |
| 2 | And what we have today are entirely modern creations , syntheses , the result of countless unrecorded accidents rather than the national spirit seeking to realise itself . |
| 3 | The task is further complicated by the fact that the collection of regional data for the EC is not only a vast undertaking but often produces output that is of more doubtful reliability than the national counterpart . |
| 4 | There could be no better name for such a body than the National Heritage Memorial Fund for Scotland . |
| 5 | If you want a good example of value for money , look no further than the National Audit Office . |
| 6 | Participation , it is often held , can be more widely achieved at the local than the national level . |
| 7 | The report also calls for increased funding and a higher profile for the Energy Efficiency Office at the Department of Energy and suggests that energy policy should in future be formulated more at the European Community level rather than the national level . |
| 8 | McGuire adds another important qualification : that the sponsors of bureaus at state and municipal levels may be more informed as to the production function of their agencies than the national legislature . |
| 9 | During these amazing years of unprecedented expansion Greater London grew at a much faster rate than the national population as a whole and faster than the suburbs of any provincial city . |
| 10 | At eight of America 's big hub airports where one airline commands 75% or more of departures , air fares are more than 18% higher per mile travelled than the national average . |
| 11 | Their life expectancy may be less than the national average , and they may be more susceptible to illness and disease . |
| 12 | Indeed , they conclude that ‘ it is television that gives millions of people their basic idea of reality ’ , and this may be particularly true for older people , who on average watch 33 hours of television a week , 11 hours more than the national average . |
| 13 | Appreciably lower financial returns to farmers than the national average . |
| 14 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 15 | By 1981 , unemployment for those living in the cities was 50 per cent higher than the national average . |
| 16 | Mr. Leggatt said that 75 percent of funerals locally were cremations — higher than the national average — and he speculated that this may be because of the lack of cemeteries in the area . |
| 17 | Levels around Hinckley Point are nearly twice the national average and , between 1969 and 1973 , cases of cancer were four times higher than the national average in people under the age of 25 living in a radius of 12.5km around Hinckley Point . |
| 18 | On average , inner London districts employ around one third fewer district nurses per capita of the resident population over the age of 75 than comparable districts outside London and the cost per contact is 60% higher than the national average . |
| 19 | The population of the capital grew dramatically in the 18th and 19th centuries , just as it had done in the 17th , and despite the fact that its death rate was higher than the national average . |
| 20 | Cumberland , which claims its mortgage arrears are 45% less than the national average and made no mortgage loss whatsoever , provided £528,540 ( v £56,400 ) against loans , advances and guarantees in the year ended 31 March 1992 . |
| 21 | A figure of more than 100 indicates that GDP per head in that region is higher than the UK average and , conversely , a figure lower than 100 indicates that the region 's GDP per head is lower than the national average . |
| 22 | The South East , the South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands were again the regions showing increases less than the national average for unemployment as a percentage of the working population . |
| 23 | As there are fewer than fifty such hospitals in the whole country , with long waiting lists and high proportions of permanent inmates , the ‘ 6 to 8 months ’ average waiting time reported by Guha ( quoted in Baxi 1982 ) for a gaol in Assam may be shorter than the national average . |
| 24 | It may be noted incidentally that if in any land the poll is higher than the national average one or more patties in it may receive a correspondingly larger allotment of seats , which , since the number of constituency seats can not be changed , will entail a larger allotment of list seats . |
| 25 | In 1971 the census-defined unemployment rate for the project area was high at 13% , but this is lower than the national average as defined much less inclusively in 1988 . |
| 26 | For 1974–79 and 1979–84 which regions lose more and which lose less than the national average ? |
| 27 | The South Atlantic region ( Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , West Virginia , North and South Carolina , Georgia and Florida , plus the District of Columbia ) performed much better than the national average , especially in the first two decades when growth rates were half as large again as those for the United States as a whole . |
| 28 | Car ownership rates are higher in rural areas than the national average . |
| 29 | These findings do not confirm fears of an overall increase in the number of old people looked after in institutions , and the proportion of 4.7% remains commendably low by international standards ( and lower than the national average of 5.1% in 1971 ) . |
| 30 | In a detailed study of premature mortality in North Tyne side , Phillimore ( 1989 ) has shown that people aged under 65 in the two worst-off wards are subject to mortality rates around 50 per cent higher than the national average , while in the two wards at the other extreme the rates are 30 per cent below average . |