Example sentences of "[det] compare [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This compares to an average UK-wide price of £44,050 and an average advance of £37,865 to first time buyers . |
| 2 | This compares with an average transaction level of under £1,900 at Sharelink . |
| 3 | This compares with an average of 9% achieved in the 1980s , and is lower than reformist economists and provincial leaders had hoped . |
| 4 | This compares with an inflow of £6.2 billion in 1990–91 and beats the previous record year of 1986–87 by £1.1 billion . |
| 5 | This compares with an estimated proportion of the school population with special educational needs of 20 per cent . |
| 6 | Although the SB level increased by 5 per cent in real terms between November 1978 and April 1987 , this compares with an average increase of 14 per cent in real terms for personal disposable income . |
| 7 | This compares with an average life expectancy in 1975 of 69.1 years for males and 75.2 years for females . |
| 8 | This compares with an overall average of about 8 per cent for the London Road End as a whole . |
| 9 | This compares with an average annual increase of 0.5–0.6 per cent in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 10 | This compares with an area of 3,615,123 square miles for the United States . |
| 11 | This compared with an historical cost profit of £415 million in 1991 , when much heavier stock holding losses of £629 million were recorded because of a substantial fall in oil prices with the end of the Gulf war . |
| 12 | That compared with an authorised limit of 4,300MBq a year . |
| 13 | That compares with an estimated 200,000 cocaine users and seizures by the police went up last year by 3,500% . |
| 14 | That compares with an increase on the Intercity trip from Swindon of 7.5% . |
| 15 | That compares with an eighty nine per cent increase among drug abusers and a forty per cent increase among gay men . |