Example sentences of "higher than [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " 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 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 . |
| 4 | All this points to a higher than usual intelligence quotient . ’ |
| 5 | Variations in the ability to convert income to a capital gain , plus the fact that such gains are more significant in higher than lower income brackets , means that any favourable treatment they might receive would be inequitable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Higher than average seed rates with close planting are used . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Firstly , it is a consequence of averaging tariff levels to calculate the CET that some countries ' post-union tariff levels ( namely the CET ) will be higher than pre-union tariff levels . |
| 12 | So , a person with a higher than normal cholesterol concentration carries a relatively low risk if he/she does not smoke , has low blood pressure , is not overweight , exercises regularly and has no history of heart disease in the family . |
| 13 | Some firms also offer extra-high models , for vehicles higher than normal family saloons — camper vans and the like . |
| 14 | This also applies to the Cheesewring Quarry , which seems to have had a higher than normal accident rate in the past few years . |
| 15 | The Middle East Economic Digest of July 13 quoted a senior government official as stating that the total foreign debt of united Yemen stood at US$7,256 million as of March 1990 , a figure substantially higher than earlier World Bank estimates . |
| 16 | That resentment will grow further when people realise that the Welsh Office has got its sums wrong and that the bills that they pay will be much higher than Welsh Office estimates . |
| 17 | It is not by accident that the countries within the ERM — viz Spain and Ireland — and countries shadowing the system — such as Sweden and Norway — believe that the price of higher than warranted interest rates , from their domestic point of view , is nevertheless worth paying , in return for the longer-term stability that the ERM will provide . |
| 18 | In response to higher than expected government revenue in 1989 , as a result of an increase in the value of exports , especially oil , projected revenue for 1990 was set at naira 47,657million ( US$1.00=N 7.6627 as at Jan. 8 , 1990 ) , of which N 38,628 million was expected to come from crude oil export ( based on a estimated price of US$16 per barrel ) and N 9,029 million from non-oil sources . |
| 19 | Plans to cut public spending by 14.5 per cent to combat a higher than expected budget deficit were criticized by former communist deputies , who demanded the government 's dismissal , calling on Bielecki to act merely as caretaker Prime Minister until the elections . |
| 20 | And although they maintained none of County Durham 's 5,000 teachers would lose their jobs the higher than expected pay deal will make the county dig into its reserves to pay for the salary hike . |
| 21 | The level of spending was apparently greater than originally planned and it was suggested that the increase was made possible by higher than expected oil revenues for 1989 . |