Example sentences of "than [art] average [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average pensioner is 32% better off in real terms than the average pensioner in 1979 . |
| 2 | Because New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives , shows would close for a couple of months when the Girls would be sent home for a holiday on half pay , which was better than the average salary in Britain . |
| 3 | It is true that there is also a chance that the individual plaintiff may live longer than the average expectation of life . |
| 4 | Election ‘ 92 : ‘ A lot less tiring than the average day in Downing Street ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been a lot less tiring than the average day in Downing Street , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 6 | Robertson Nicoll , with his journalistic exuberance , boasted in 1902 that ‘ the average Dissenting minister has … a better literary and theological culture than the average minister of the Church [ of England ] ’ who were ‘ the worst educated [ ministry ] in this country ’ . |
| 7 | This is substantially higher than the average yield of shares quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 8 | They have no more idea of the public 's response to something musical than the average man in the street . |
| 9 | Women … had to be a little better than the average man in order to stay equal . |
| 10 | In Brightman v Johnson ( 1985 ) The Times , 17 December an award made in December 1985 , Tudor Price J increased this figure to £95,000 to take account of the circumstances which made the plaintiff 's injuries more serious than the average case of tetraplegia ( see Report in para A2-001 of Vol 2 of Kemp & Kemp ) . |
| 11 | But it is still cost-effective since the rest of its annual costs , £3.85M or about £10/tonne , are 27 per cent less than the average cost of refusal disposal to the GLC and only half those of long-distance hole-filling contracts ( up to £23/tonne ) . |
| 12 | It is notable that all of the groups defined as ‘ non-standard ’ , and a number of those entering on the basis of other qualifications , perform better than the average level of achievement for A-level entrants . |
| 13 | A spokesman for the local authority employers said the 4.9pc rise was ‘ significantly lower ’ than the average level of pay rises across the whole economy . |
| 14 | As this was higher than the average rate over such a period that had been experienced at any historical time , something had to be done . |
| 15 | This relationship is n't just common to product relationships it 's the same in cost revenue relationships as well Okay , so so what that diagram is saying in symbolic terms is that if the slope of the ideal product of labour curve , right , if D L P D A P L by D L positive , then the marginal product of labour must be greater than the average product of labour . |
| 16 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 17 | In 1988 , the average size of transactions where other EC companies took over UK companies was 2.5 times greater than the average value of transactions where UK companies acquired other EC companies . |
| 18 | This was significantly higher ( P 0.01 ) than the average score of the total student population which was 50 . |
| 19 | Further the average score of 57.9 for the degree results of the non-standard entry mature students was significantly greater than the average score of 50 for all students . |
| 20 | The average depth of the sea is 12,430 feet — much deeper than the average height of the land , a mere 2,760 feet . |
| 21 | Under Bloch 's type of analysis , the statement that Hemingway uses " short sentences amounts to a claim that the average length of a Hemingway sentence is shorter ( to a significant extent ) than the average length of an English sentence : something which can in principle be verified or falsified . |
| 22 | Detainees in police stations should have no more difficulty in obtaining therapeutic agents than the average citizen at home , and probably less , since the latter does not generally have a car and driver to collect his medicines from the local pharmacy . |
| 23 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 24 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
| 25 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 26 | Do you live far from a good shopping area so that you will need more than the average amount of food storage space and a large deep freeze ? |
| 27 | It seems to have been a fairly general rule in the later enclosure awards that the minimum width for inter-village roads should be forty feet between the ditches , though local roads carrying more than the average traffic for the district were often laid down forty-five or fifty feet wide . |