Example sentences of "compare [prep] [noun] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun Fire around 1800 had an investment income of £30,000 per annum compared with underwriting profits of £12,000 . |
| 2 | Currently wages are rising by about 7.5 p.c. per annum compared to price rises of about 4 p.c . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the fund was found to be £750m in the red , with assets of £13,440m covering 95% of liabilities , compared with asset coverage of 109% at March 31 1992 . |
| 4 | As compared with handbook accounts of supposedly homogeneous varieties , therefore , it can be characterized as a ‘ normal ’ situation , as it is the normal state of language to be heterogeneous . |
| 5 | Serum samples were obtained from 12 patients with active coeliac disease and seven with non-active disease , and compared with serum samples of 17 children with gastrointestinal symptoms but with a small bowel normal unbiopsy examination and 33 normal controls . |
| 6 | The advantages of hydro-electric power are its high conversion efficiency — more than 80% as compared with efficiency rates of 30% or so in thermal power stations . |
| 7 | First , it is important to recall that in BV ( as compared with textbook descriptions of standard English ) many vowels have a startlingly wide range of realizations ( see the range for /a/ in table 4.2 ) . |
| 8 | The figures are all the more startling when compared with mortgage bills of 18 months ago , when base rates hit a low of 7.5 per cent . |
| 9 | Last year Iron Maiden gear grossed £7 million compared with record sales of £21 million . |
| 10 | Life expectancy is falling ( the 1992 figure of 69 years for women and 63 for men compares with UK figures of 78.3 and 72.7 ) . |
| 11 | This compares with tax rates of up to 40 per cent currently in operation in the USSR . |
| 12 | This compares with data rates of at least 384 kbs needed for the conventional videoconferencing systems using special leased line and satellite facilities . |
| 13 | Letter features were extracted with respect to these , and compared to reference sets of features . |
| 14 | A litre of diesel costs 35p compared to pump prices of 45p–49p . |