Example sentences of "compare [prep] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have visited many countries in the world and can think of no other which can compare with Burma for the permeation of its cultural and social life with religion . |
| 2 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 3 | It contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 . |
| 4 | A survey of the Japanese computer market in Nikkei group magazine Nikkei Computer estimates the Japanese domestic computer market at $92,000m : a growth rate of 6% is expected over the new financial year that started on April 1 ; by sector the market grew last fiscal by 18% for Unix systems , compared with 8% for the data services market , 5% for mainframe computers and 3% for small business computers , while personal computers saw negative growth ; Unix machines are expected to grow by 20% this year and personal computers to put on 7% ; mainframes are again expected to be affected by the depressed economic conditions but will still manage 2% growth . |
| 5 | Haynes ' general publishing made a loss of £250,000 during the six months , compared with £1.2m for the whole of last year . |
| 6 | In December 1992 the tax on Taiwanese imports was 7.5% compared with 15% for the US and Europe . |
| 7 | William Overton held the courts of Empingham for as little as 40d. , compared with 40s. for the same duty at Burley . |
| 8 | The Warrington-based electrical components group announced £7.34m profits for the year to March 31 , compared with £3.68m for the previous year . |
| 9 | By August this year , fraud boosted by the Maxwell affair had already cost the UK £445m , compared with £376m for the whole of 1991 . |
| 10 | Fifty two per cent of patients receiving prednisolone had formed stools after four weeks , compared with 29% receiving fluticasone propionate ( p=0.007 ) ; 60% had no bleeding , compared with 45% for the fluticasone propionate group ( p=0.021 ) ; and 73% had fewer than three bowel motions a day compared with 41% of those receiving fluticasone propionate ( p=0.001 ) . |
| 11 | The mean birth weight of the control group babies was 2.28kg , compared with 2.7kg for the experimental group . |
| 12 | In 1989 the average income for lone parents was £134.61 compared with £339.71 for the couples with two children , equivalent by then to only 40 per cent ( DE , 1990c ) . |
| 13 | It 's claimed that the laser-engraved cards are fraud-proof at a cost of £1.20 each to produce , compared with 25p for the old cards It 's an investment that the industry hopes will beat the fraudsters hands down . |
| 14 | Figures in the annual report show his total package of £3,290,474 for the year to the end of March , compared with £653,886 for the previous 12 months , which included relocation expenses and an annual bonus of £69,160 . |
| 15 | This compares with quotas for the year of 3.25 million tonnes and 925,000 tonnes respectively . |
| 16 | For the rest of the period , rainfall across the country was well below normal levels , with large areas of central and southern France receiving less than 60 per cent of normal rainfall , when compared to figures for the past 30 years . |
| 17 | The average weekly income of a shareowner was £196 , compared to £118 for the survey sample as a whole , although the average of those owning shares in privatised companies alone was £168 . |
| 18 | The Citroen Furio scores on list price too , costing £10,750 compared to £13,100 for the XR3i , £11,955 for the Rover , £12,295 for the Astra and £14,495 for the Golf . |
| 19 | The most severe problem area , in the charts , seems to be a lack of clarity about the job itself — and a related lack of information needed to do the job ( 46% , compared to 70% for the Unit as a whole . ) |