Example sentences of "compared with [art] old [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His famous Etruria works were built on the canal and the carriage costs of coal and raw materials from Liverpool , including the vital china clay shipped to the Mersey port from Cornwall , fell to a rate of 13s 4d ( 67p ) per ton compared with the old road carriage rate of £2 10s ( £2.50 ) . |
| 2 | By 1990 , the combined profit of the seven companies after interest payments was Y388bn ( £1.6bn ) , compared with the old organisation 's Y1,361bn loss in 1986 . |
| 3 | Compared with the old system , increases in the marginal tax rate ( MTR ) are seen to occur for the £75-£115 weekly pay band with the average tax rate ( ATR ) falling , indicating that both substitution and income effects should pull in this range towards less work . |
| 4 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 5 | For him Childebert I could be compared with the Old Testament monarch , Melchisedek — and doubtless , having come from Ravenna , Fortunatus 's image of Melchisedek would have been similar to that which was set up in San Vitale , where the patriarch provided an analogue to the emperor Justinian . |
| 6 | Compared with the older production system , this new process , in which workers owned no machinery but were paid wages , was able to produce more and at a cheaper price . |