Example sentences of "[num] as [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In manufacturing industry where the US decline was sharpest , the rate of profit ( before taxation ) seems to have been significantly higher than in the rest of the ACCs ( 28 per cent over the years 1955–70 as against 23 per cent elsewhere ) . |
| 2 | But there could be only one winner , in 1985 as in 1919 . |
| 3 | In the rural high oil category , where incidence increased significantly in 1979–83 ( table II ) , the peak moved during that period to age 2 as in urban areas , remaining there in 1984–8 ; in other rural areas it continued to be at age 3 . |
| 4 | Ask a bookdealer how his trade has changed over the last twenty years , and you 'll get an answer worthy of a merchant banker : volumes have multiplied ( hardly surprising : there have been as many books published since 1960 as in all the previous history of publishing ) , margins have been squeezed ; competition has grown fiercer , and specialisation finer ; women and Japanese have become crucial forces with which to reckon . |
| 5 | 11 Using A and 0 as in 8 and 9 , what does A 0 mean ? 12 Using A and 0 as in 8 and 9 , what does A u 0 mean ? 13 What name is given to the kind of diagrams shown here ? |
| 6 | 11 Using A and 0 as in 8 and 9 , what does A 0 mean ? 12 Using A and 0 as in 8 and 9 , what does A u 0 mean ? 13 What name is given to the kind of diagrams shown here ? |
| 7 | Nonetheless , Mori figures show that between the second half of 1991 and 9 April 1992 , the swing to the Tories was 9 per cent among Sun readers and 6 per cent among Star readers , compared to just 1 per cent among Mirror readers — evidence that the press influenced its readers in 1992 as in 1987 . |
| 8 | Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities . |
| 9 | Mean maximal resting anal pressures and maximum squeeze pressures were significantly lower in older people , although the word ‘ older ’ referred to patients over the age of 65 rather than 50 as in this study . |
| 10 | The aristocracies which ruled so much of Europe could still see themselves even in 1914 as in some sense parts of a social order which transcended national boundaries . |
| 11 | In England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland , where that is no longer the case , the age of consent for male homosexual behaviour in private is 21 and not 16 as for heterosexual relationships . |
| 12 | It might , however , be argued to the contrary that the mistake is really one as to civil law , which does afford a defence , or that if the mistake is a factual one ( e.g. was he a constable ? ) he should also not be convicted . |
| 13 | Infrared radiation is absorbed by a diamond in a process that involves the creation of two vibrations , not just one as in common salt ; the frequency of the radiation equals the combined frequency of the vibrations . |
| 14 | Categories such as ‘ theatre and entertainment ’ or ‘ cinema and film ’ did not include quite the same things in 1987 as in 1961 , or not in the same proportions . |
| 15 | Do we , I wonder ? be in no doubt that in 1987 as in 1986 millions will still be suffering . |
| 16 | Many of the Kemsley provincial papers were still in the same group in 1987 as in 1947 , but now under a different owner . |
| 17 | Actually he did n't call it a third round , since he did n't solicit new entries but used the same 63 as for Round 2 . |
| 18 | Although Mr Neubert would not say how much the three Swan Hunter Type 23s will cost , it is thought to be about three-quarters the price of recently built Type 22 frigates , which have a crew of 240 as against 170 for the Duke class . |
| 19 | The lower-status group figures were again very much higher than those for the upper group ( 2.17 as against 0.91 , out of a possible 4.00 ) : this means that lower group speakers , on average , use the vernacular alternant for two or more of the four lexical items , even in word-list style — a surprising finding in terms of Labov 's predictions on contextual style . |
| 20 | In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years . |
| 21 | Some continued to write polyphonic madrigals as well as monodic ones ; d'India , for instance , published eight books of five-part madrigals during 1606 as against five of musiche ( for Caccini 's term was commonly adopted ) between 1609 and 1623 . |
| 22 | If this is combined with the previous result of 40 per cent of places ‘ lost ’ in 1814 as against 1792 being Scottish the conclusion is that the 1814 petitioning was not only much more English than 1792 but even much more English south of the North Country . |
| 23 | HeLa native TFIIF 2. none 3. r74(1–517) and r30 4. as in 3. plus 0.5µg/ml α-amanitin . |
| 24 | It added that national income rose by 1.9 per cent in 1989 as against 4.4 per cent in 1988 [ see p. 37020 ] . |
| 25 | THREE gunmen — and not two as at first believed — took part in the Castlerock massacre of four workmen , police revealed today . |
| 26 | Readers should note that the ANSI/X3/SPARC architecture described in Section 1.8 is slightly different to that shown in Figure 6.1 as in that architecture the external view is mapped onto a conceptual view . |
| 27 | There was no reason why the ordinary law of contract should not apply to an agreement under s 54 as to any other agreement . |
| 28 | With this proviso , the framework represented , in 1990 as in 1987 , the main areas of school life in which PNP coordinators were deployed . |
| 29 | Many of the hardened professionals occupying top posts in broadcasting and telecommunications in the 1980S began their careers in the 1940S and 1950S : for all the progress made towards a recognition of the independence of broadcasters , the communications sector ( or ‘ landscape ’ ) bears the imprint in 1990 as in 1944 of years of crises and reforms , of purges and witch-hunts . |
| 30 | Nor does revisionist work confirm Soviet insistence that the peasant movement , in 1905 as in 1917 , followed in the wake of a proletarian vanguard . |