Example sentences of "[is] [adv] higher [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently the Poet 's estimate of the Friend 's credulity is rather higher than ours . |
| 2 | Average desired or intended family size is rather higher than the family size implicit in birth-rates since the 1970s . |
| 3 | Eighteen to 48 hours after thrombolytic therapy about 85% of vessels are open , with the minority remaining occluded , This patency rate is rather higher than that seen at 90 minutes following similar thrombolytic treatment ( 65–70% ) . |
| 4 | As we have already seen in Chapter 1 , the proportion of the temporary labour force who consider themselves self-employed ( 15 per cent ) is rather higher than that of the workforce as a whole ( 11 per cent ) . |
| 5 | Erm well that base budget is rather higher than we are expecting and the time when , the policy committee set its targets for each of the service committees . |
| 6 | Ensure the highest SPR identifier is numerically higher than or equal to the lowest SPR identifier . |
| 7 | Ensure the highest SSR identifier is numerically higher than or equal to the lowest SSR identifier . |
| 8 | In terms of use , the status of e-mail messages ( excluding mailed WP documents ) , in most companies , is somewhere higher than a telephone call or a hand-written note but lower than a formal memo or report . |
| 9 | And indeed , in efforts to des to also confirm our reasonableness in the figure that we 've put forward , despite the fact that it 's much higher than the counties , I have included in my submission , paragraph thirty nine , that there are a number of factors we could have taken into account , but have n't have chosen not to do so , er which would have in fact upped the dwelling requirement . |
| 10 | Turning to the sex of known opioid users , the 3.6:1 male to female ratio found for Wirral opioid users is somewhat higher than the 2.7:1 ratio found for problem drug users ( mostly heroin users ) in both Brighton and South Tyneside , and the 2:1 ratio reported for opioid users in both Bristol and Leeds . |
| 11 | The dose of tritiated thymidine used here , which is somewhat higher than that used by many other investigators , produces clear cut labelling of S-phase muclei with numerous black grains against a negligible background . |
| 12 | The H pylori antibody positivity rate of 39% of young adults in 1969 is somewhat higher than that reported by other surveys and the consistency of our antibody results over the 21 year period that the testing is valid . |
| 13 | The effective stiffness must then be chosen according to the expected amplitude of the rotor displacement , as shown in Fig. 3.3 in which the stiffness for small loads ( up to 0–15 TPK ) is appreciably higher than the effective stiffness for larger loads ( 0–8TPK ) . |
| 14 | The index has risen by over 60 per cent while turnover is much higher than the Swedish market , with its much larger market capitalisation . |
| 15 | But , as a general principle , Northern Ireland 's social divisions ensure that police management prefer neighbourhood police to be on the street , as is their purpose , and in practice about three-quarters of the normal shift is taken up with beat duty , which is much higher than in Great Britain . |
| 16 | ‘ The rate of work with an umbilical hose system is much higher than that you could achieve with one man and a tanker driving from store to field . ’ |
| 17 | It turns out that for these kinds of DNA the rate of change in evolution is much higher than it is for the more constrained , ‘ coding ’ , regions . |
| 18 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |
| 19 | I would add only that the cost of insurance in Belgium , where I was general manager of a major insurance company for nine years , is much higher than in Britain , and the rate of inflation has now steadied after a major explosion when these factors were introduced . |
| 20 | The now defunct sluice gates are still in place at the head of the race , which is much higher than the Ell Brook . |
| 21 | The cost of VHS-C tapes per hour of running time is much higher than for standard VHS . |
| 22 | This figure , of course , is much higher than one expects for two unrelated spoken languages . |
| 23 | Detailed life-history studies of this highly dimorphic animal reveal that the reproductive success of large males is much higher than small males . |
| 24 | These results indicate that the degree of cross-talk between G proteins and effectors and thus the flexibility of G-protein-regulated transmembrane signalling is much higher than thought . |
| 25 | This is much higher than the typical velocities of galactic masers ( less than a few hundred kilometres per second ) . |
| 26 | The detailed differences between the CO and CS maps imply that the pressure of interstellar gas in the bulge is much higher than it is in the disk . |
| 27 | 1981 ) , and that the actual rate of offending is much higher than that revealed by official figures ( Hindelang , 1976 ; West and Farrington , 1973 ) . |
| 28 | But the alcohol consumption of Chan et al 's hypercapnic group averaged 124 units/week , which is much higher than that of our patients , whose consumption was similar to that of the population in Edinburgh studied by Chick et al . |
| 29 | Unemployment on the estates themselves is much higher than the average for the surrounding areas . |
| 30 | The correlation is much higher than that with male age at marriage , leading him to hypothesize that ‘ the educational power of a family system may well be determined by the strength of maternal authority ’ ( p. 17 ) . |