Example sentences of "compares with [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This compares with a deficit of $1.5 billion a year ago . |
| 2 | This compares with a deficit of $65.2m in the first quarter last year and $42.1m in the final quarter of 1992 . |
| 3 | A profit of $7.6m in the second quarter ( 1992 : $39.6m loss ) produced an overall profit for the half year of $3.5m , which compares with a deficit in the same period in 1992 of $104.8m . |
| 4 | LASMO 's profit after tax ‘ before exceptional items ’ for 1992 of £41 million compares with a profit for 1991 of £17 million on a restated basis . |
| 5 | The loss compares with a profit of £1.2m the previous year . |
| 6 | That compares with a profit of £28m at the height of the boom in 1988 . |
| 7 | This compares with a profit of over £133m in the corresponding period . |
| 8 | This compares with a profit of £86 million in the same period last year . |
| 9 | This compares with a bill of around £600 in this country , including solicitors ' costs and mortgage evaluation fee , but not including Stamp Duty ( at least until August ) . |
| 10 | This compares with a total of L2,200 billion ( £1.01 billion ; $1.76 billion ) already allocated under four previous laws ( of 1984 , 1986 , 1988 and 1991 ) . |
| 11 | This compares with a total of 341000 beds within the NHS , of which 77000 are devoted to mental illness . |
| 12 | The figure compares with a survey in May when 12% said they intended to increase their property holdings . |
| 13 | This compares with a rise of 16.2 per cent in the FT-A World ( Pacific Basin ) Index , in a volatile year for Far Eastern markets . |
| 14 | The profit compares with a loss of £32.5 million in the previous financial year and £189.9 million in the year before that . |
| 15 | The figure , which compares with a loss of £112 million in 1991 , is thought to have been topped only by a near-£1.8 billion loss recorded by British Steel while still in state hands in 1979-80 . |
| 16 | This compares with a loss for 1991 of £4 million , stated in accordance with the new accounting standard FRS 3 . |
| 17 | This compares with a loss in the same period last year of $15.4m . |
| 18 | This compares with a loss in the same period last year of $29.0m . |
| 19 | The temperature needs to be kept below 400°C , which compares with a figure of 1200°C for thermal oxidation of the other main semiconductor , silicon . |
| 20 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 21 | That compares with the rest of the water companies , we are second lowest . |
| 22 | You may think that the moment of those first tottering steps was special , but believe me , absolutely nothing compares with the sight of one 's own child doggy-paddling across a swimming pool for the first time ( or indeed doggy-paddling through Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the violin , with a not-dissimilar arm action ) . |
| 23 | This compares with the average of 16% in the U.K. as a whole . |
| 24 | It shows how the present position compares with the depths of the last recession in 1982 when 23 per cent of such companies were at risk . |
| 25 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 26 | That compares with an increase on the Intercity trip from Swindon of 7.5% . |
| 27 | The generation cost of 10p per unit compares with an estimate of 2.5p for the proposed PWR at Sizewell . |
| 28 | This compares with an area of 3,615,123 square miles for the United States . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This compares with an average of 9% achieved in the 1980s , and is lower than reformist economists and provincial leaders had hoped . |