Example sentences of "[adj] [num] than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the United States it peaked around 1966 , but was still much higher in the early seventies than in the early sixties . |
| 2 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 3 | In Germany and the United States in particular , business borrowing was higher in the early seventies than in the early and mid-sixties . |
| 4 | The United States and Canada did experience more industrial unrest in the early seventies than in the fifties and sixties , and money wages rose faster . |
| 5 | For the ACCs as a whole real take-home pay rose by nearly 1 per cent per year faster in the early 1970s than in the 1960s , despite the slowdown in productivity growth ( table 11.9 ) . |
| 6 | Again , the Corinthians ( i.42 ) urge the Athenians to remove the ‘ previously existing suspicion on account of the Megarians ’ , where ‘ previously , is more likely to refer to the early 430s than to Megarian behaviour c.460 , which was not something Athens could do much about now . |
| 7 | Clegg has examined the reasons for this in the early 1930s and suggested that employers were not well organized at this time and that there were fewer jobs being lost in the early 1930s than in the early 1920s . |
| 8 | Alternatively one might note that , relative to the growth of domestic demand in the USA , imports were 41 per cent greater in early 1988 than in 1980 — compared with , say , 7 per cent higher for France and 17 per cent higher in West Germany . |
| 9 | Revisions in investment intentions were generally smaller in the more stable and buoyant economic environment of the mid to late 1980s than in earlier periods of greater uncertainty . |
| 10 | Overall the rates are still coming down — but much more slowly in the late 1980s than in the decades before . |
| 11 | Most patients in group A showed greater immunostaining with big ET-1 than with ET-1 antisera , suggesting a predominance of precursor and providing evidence of increased local synthesis of ET-1 in the lung of patients with CFA . |
| 12 | Most patients in group A had greater staining for big ET-1 than for mature ET-1 . |