Example sentences of "compare with [noun] for " 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 | In 1975 average earnings in agriculture were £45–25 for a working week of 46. 1 hours , compared with £59.58 for 43–6 hours in manufacturing industry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 . |
| 5 | But every unnecessary home blood test wastes 26p of scarce NHS resources ( compared with 4p for a urine testing strip ) , and if each of Britain 's 500000 non-insulin dependent diabetic patients carries out several tests a week the cost implications are enormous . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Britain 's unemployment rate of 12.3% compared with 11% for Canada , 9.5% for the United States , 9.3% for Italy , 8.5% for France , 7% for Germany , and 2.3% for Japan . |
| 8 | They are compared with figures for actual growth over that period , with the forecast error in the third column . |
| 9 | Warwick Castle gets about forty percent of visitors from overseas with whom a large proportion are Americans , and er I suggest that the increase in Americans this year will be quite good compared with figures for last year , so we do benefit er I might even mention that in Holland er over half the visitors Exhibition in Amsterdam are not Dutch , many of them are Germans , but there are also Americans and of course other overseas visitors there . |
| 10 | A three-minute peak time call was 16.8p with BT , compared with 75p for private users of Mercury One-2-One , the spokesman added . |
| 11 | Haynes ' general publishing made a loss of £250,000 during the six months , compared with £1.2m for the whole of last year . |
| 12 | Its $17.4m rentals , nevertheless , represented a modestly respectable profit on a $15m outlay ( 16% compared with 47% for Roger Rabbit ) . |
| 13 | According to 1986 Treasury figures , in 1985 per capita health and personal social service expenditure for those age 75 and over was £1,340 compared with £530 for those aged 65–74 and £305 for the population as a whole ( HM Treasury , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | In December 1992 the tax on Taiwanese imports was 7.5% compared with 15% for the US and Europe . |
| 15 | Of course , smokers also pay with their health : the proportion of men aged 35 who will die before reaching retiring age is 40% for heavy smokers ( 25 or more cigarettes a day ) compared with 15% for non-smokers [ 4 ] . |
| 16 | For example , Delight Extra Low spreads deliciously on fresh bread but contains only 20% fat , compared with 80% for butter or margarine and 40% for most low fat spreads . |
| 17 | They expect the average tariff for an air trip to be £64.00 ( at 1987 prices ) in 1993 compared with £39.90 for a through rail trip . |
| 18 | William Overton held the courts of Empingham for as little as 40d. , compared with 40s. for the same duty at Burley . |
| 19 | Agriculture ( 26% of GDP , compared with 24% for industry ) is not taxed . |
| 20 | Intel 's business in Japan comprises only 8% of its total worldwide revenue of $5,840m , compared with 24% for Europe and 16% from the rest of Asia . |
| 21 | Monthly summer holiday bookings compared with bookings for same month last year . |
| 22 | The Warrington-based electrical components group announced £7.34m profits for the year to March 31 , compared with £3.68m for the previous year . |
| 23 | There were no significant differences in the mean systolic or diastolic pressures at one and two years when compared with entry for either the cyclosporin or placebo groups . |
| 24 | By August this year , fraud boosted by the Maxwell affair had already cost the UK £445m , compared with £376m for the whole of 1991 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | The mean birth weight of the control group babies was 2.28kg , compared with 2.7kg for the experimental group . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | At 3 a shot , its 800 feet work out at 1p for every 2.6ft — compared with 0.9ft for Blackpool Tower and 1.7ft for Paris 's Eiffel Tower . |
| 29 | In 1989 the average amount of bills taxed in the 4,553 Queen 's Bench actions or matters was £3,695 , compared with £4,833 for 1988 . |
| 30 | In 1979 the average disposable income ( after tax and National Insurance contributions ) of households consisting of a lone parent and children was £70.46 compared with £123.30 for a couple with two children ( DE , 1980 ) . |