Example sentences of "have a worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | If General Motors has a worse credit rating than Toyota , its borrowing costs ought to be higher . |
| 2 | Only construction has a worse record , where the risk is one in 252 . |
| 3 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 4 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 5 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 6 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 7 | By the end of the year he was predicting , in research carried out for the Scottish National Party , that unemployment would have a worse impact in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK , reflecting the poorer social conditions prevalent there . |
| 8 | Recognising that relocation may have a worse effect on married staff than on single workers , it is not unusual to find that they receive higher allowances . |
| 9 | " I could n't have a worse offer if I lived to be a hundred . |
| 10 | This will probably have a worse risk-benefit trade off than the formalised use of league tables . |
| 11 | This will probably have a worse risk-benefit trade off than the formalised use of league tables . |
| 12 | The British Friesian quickly became very popular and by the late 1940s it was the country 's dominant breed , although it was sometimes decried for being uglier , having a worse udder and giving lower quality milk than the Ayrshire and the Shorthorn . |
| 13 | The professor added that he could envisage his daughter having a worse husband . |
| 14 | Unlucky Wales : they are widely thought to have a worse chance against the tourists than either Neath or Llanelli . |
| 15 | This strange accident had a worse effect on Troy than any of his troubles , worse even than Fanny 's death . |
| 16 | Has the Minister had time to have a look at the table published in European Economy , which clearly shows that in terms of the annual change in the volume of exports of goods and services between 1979 and 1990 , the United Kingdom had a worse record than any other European Community country ? |
| 17 | The change was due to the greater proportion of patients with colonic disease , which in this study had a worse prognosis . |
| 18 | Then I had a worse one . |
| 19 | He handed in a nine-over-par 81 and only two players , the Dane , Steen Tinning , and Irishman Philip Walton , who had a 9 at the twelfth , had a worse return . |
| 20 | ‘ Though whether women really have a worse time in this sort of society is a matter for argument , ’ she said . |
| 21 | As I explained in the previous chapter , there is no export zone anywhere that has a good record on linkages , but few have a worse record than the maquila industry . |