Example sentences of "whereas in the [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the 1780s she produced twice as much as her closest competitor , Great Britain , by the end of the Crimean War she had been overtaken by Belgium , France was exceeding her output threefold , and Britain no less than fourteenfold . |
| 2 | It was true that in the 1880s youth work had meant philanthropy and religion , whereas in the 1900s it was felt to be the responsibility of local education authorities , juvenile employment committees , after-care committees and part-time day continuation classes in liberal and vocational studies . |
| 3 | Dual-subject degrees exist in both the universities and polytechnics , but their place in each is subtly different ; in the former they are seen largely in relation to the single honours degree , which constitutes a kind of academic gold standard , whereas in the latter they come under the general rubric of ‘ combined studies ’ . |
| 4 | In the former the seller can fulfil his contract only by delivery of 500 tons from the specified cargo , whereas in the latter he can fulfil his contract by supplying 500 tons from any source . |
| 5 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 6 | Three-quarters of MPs receive between 20 and 50 letters a day , whereas in the 1960s they would have had this many in a week . |
| 7 | In the latter case it may even be a matter of reading one page in one session , whereas in the former you may be able to read and study a chapter — or even two . |