Example sentences of "compare with [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is impressed with the amount of investment Intel proposes putting into Pentium , saying that when the chip reaches the height of its production Intel will have spent $5,000m on it compared with $100m on the 80386 and $1,000m on the 80486 .
2 Some £177m of the overall losses , which compared with £157m in 1990 , came from the UK where the recession hit hardest .
3 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 .
4 On average , 65pc of a household 's income is from wages and salaries , compared with 74pc in 1965 , the survey shows .
5 In the 5–9 year age group , 15% of injuries happened in school and 24% out of doors ( compared with 23% at home ) ; and for 10–15 year-olds , 29% occurred in school and 26% out of doors ( compared with 11% at home ) .
6 This was on top of much bigger write-downs of creditors ' claims under chapter 11 deals — on average 47% of pre-deal face value , compared with 23% in workouts .
7 If 1975 is taken instead , the increase was only 10% , compared with 50% in Germany , 70% in the US and almost 180% in Japan .
8 Note that the low-pass , m-derived T-section corresponding to m = 0.3 has inductance 0.15L in each series arm compared with 0.5L in each series arm of the prototype and capacitance 0.3C in series with inductance of approximately 0.76L in the shunt arm compared with just capacitance C in the shunt arm of the prototype .
9 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 .
10 It contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 .
11 Losses before tax have been cut to $1.3m ( £800,000 ) for the six months to 30 June , compared with $15.1m in the same period last year , on sales up 14 per cent at $60.2m .
12 Hill farms in Scotland employ more hired labour than other farm categories ; there being only 60% with working occupiers as compared with 81% in upland farms .
13 The Royal Commission on Legal Services found that in 1976 the apprentice in commerce or industry received a considerably greater salary than that paid by private practitioners ; also , the median salary of solicitors in this type of employment was substantially more than in private practice ( £7,584 outside Greater London , as compared with £4,346 in private practice ) .
14 Its share price as we go to press is £10.48 compared with £10.82 at the end of 1987 , shortly after the global equity crash .
15 The HC line complements the Organiser at the high end of the market , and generated £2.6m turnover this year compared with £900,000 in 1991 .
16 According to the General Household Survey , in Great Britain in 1988 , 89% of men aged 16–64 were economically active , compared with 72% of non-married women and 69% of married women aged between 16 and 59 .
17 Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 .
18 It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p .
19 No more than 41% of Japan 's population is served by mains drains , compared with 95% in Britain and 73% in America .
20 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 .
21 Total new business billings for 1991 were £1.544bn compared with £1.357bn in 1990 and £1.224bn in 1989 .
22 The EC and EFTA countries account for 70% of Scotland 's exports compared with 68% in last year 's survey .
23 However , the gap between the sexes is narrowing : men now make up 57% of students in higher education , compared with 63% in 1980–1 and 67% in 1970–1 ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Table 27 ) .
24 Only one of the six patients with idiopathic DU was a non-secretor of blood group antigens compared with 46% of the H pylori positive patients with DU and 32% of the healthy volunteers .
25 ( Of Americans , 85% expressed pride in their institutions , compared with 46% of Britons . )
26 Although things are looking up this year , operating profits in 1990 fell to $201.3m compared with $266.1m in the previous year .
27 Teachers from ethnic minorities are more likely to be found in junior posts than are white teachers : in 1987 ( before the abolition of salary scales ) , 78% of ethnic minority teachers were on scales 1 and 2 ( the lowest ) , compared with 57% of white teachers .
28 Using immunohistochemistry , over expression of nuclear p53 protein has been found in 42% to 67% of carcinomas compared with 8% of adenomas and 0% of normal mucosa .
29 Thirty nine per cent of biopsy samples from colitic patients contained β-haemolytic E coli compared with 8% of samples from non-inflammatory bowel disease control patients ( p=0.10 ) ; the distribution of β-haemolytic strains was unrelated to disease severity .
30 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 .
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