Example sentences of "lower than [art] national [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall mortality was 23% lower than the national average for all causes of death and 18% lower for cancer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Whereas during the 1980–81 period the unemployment rate in the South East was on average three and a half percentage points lower than the national average , it currently stands close to one percentage point lower , while the unemployment rate in Greater London is equal to the national average of 8.7 per cent . |
| 6 | However , all the evidence concerning mining villages , where fertility rates continued to be high until the 1930s and where the average age at marriage was also significantly lower than the national average , suggests that role relationships within marriage were segregated . |
| 7 | All five LEAs were inner city areas , where the average educational attainment for every ethnic group is lower than the national average . |
| 8 | Mr Riley , for Bioplan , said the accident rate on Hollyhurst Road was lower than the national average . |
| 9 | This was considerably more than the anecdotal evidence and clinical experience had suggested ( less than one death per year ) , although slightly lower than the national figure . |