Example sentences of "compare with a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 just under 9000 adoptions were registered in Great Britain compared with a peak of 25 000 in 1968 . |
| 2 | His own cathedral could not boast anything to compare with a fragment of the True Cross . |
| 3 | We also know that there are over 3,000 centenarians now in Great Britain , compared with a couple of hundred or so in 1950 . |
| 4 | The consensus forecast says Germany 's current-account surplus will fall swiftly : to DM88 billion ( $52 billion ) in 1991 , compared with a forecast of DM96 billion for an un-united West Germany . |
| 5 | Production over 1992 fell by 9 per cent , compared with a slump of about 20 per cent in Russia . |
| 6 | Our replacement cost loss for 1992 was £xxx million compared with a profit of £1,035 million in 1991 . |
| 7 | BP Chemicals ' replacement cost operating loss in 1992 was £2xxmillion , compared with a profit of £32 million the year before . |
| 8 | J. P. Morgan , a New York bank , is optimistically forecasting that the current account for the year will be in balance , compared with a deficit of $99 billion in 1990 . |
| 9 | Wimpey 's loss before tax compared with a deficit of £16.1 million in 1991 . |
| 10 | Will he also remind them that we now have a surplus on steel products of £1 billion per year compared with a deficit of £1 billion per year under Labour ? |
| 11 | The current account showed a surplus of US$6,000,000 for the third quarter of 1990 , compared with a deficit of US$49,000,000 for the same period in 1989 . |
| 12 | The government expected an overall current-account deficit of at least $1,500 million in 1991 as compared with a deficit of $2,300 million in 1990 . |
| 13 | The fiscal effect of the package involved an increase in the budget deficit , predicted to reach a record A$13,400 million by June 1993 , compared with a deficit of A$9,300 million in 1991-92 , and a surplus of A$1,900 million in 1990-91 . |
| 14 | The chapter ends with an approximate calculation of the overall cost of the project , and this is compared with a calculation of the total sum saved through the operation of the project . |
| 15 | relative increase in brain size : encephalization quotient 48.8% compared with a range of values of 22 to 41% for eleven species of monkey ; |
| 16 | Mr Martin predicts that plant capacity will shrink by 3% this year ( compared with a fall of 8% in 1980 ) . |
| 17 | In the fourth quarter of 1991 the amount outstanding to non-bank credit companies fell by £0.28bn compared with a fall of £0.14bn in the previous quarter . |
| 18 | An economic policy document released in December 1989 estimated that gross national product ( GNP ) fell by 6.3 per cent in 1989 ( compared with a fall of 3.4 per cent in 1988 ) . |
| 19 | ENROLMENT of full-time students in English polytechnics has increased by 47 per cent over the last eight years , compared with a rise of only 3 per cent in universities , Her Majesty 's Inspectors said yesterday . |
| 20 | America 's industrial production recovered in the 12 months to February , rising 0.9% compared with a rise of 0.1% in the year to January . |
| 21 | America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened . |
| 22 | In Wales the amount of development plan grants paid for drainage increased 3.5 times , and for grassland improvement 3.2 times , between 1979/80 and 1982/83 compared with a rise of 74% for farm buildings ( the latter then attracting a much lower rate of grant ) . |
| 23 | The budget kept within the overall expenditure limit set in 1988 , and provided for an 11.3 per cent increase in expenditure to ECU65,200 million , as compared with a rise of 19 per cent budgeted for 1991 . |
| 24 | As widely predicted in the City , which has marked Costain shares down nearly 75 p.c. over the last year , there is no final dividend , leaving the interim of 43/4p the sole payout , compared with a total of 12¼p last time . |
| 25 | But in numerical terms this factor can hardly have made a major impact — the Max Planck Institutes permanently employ only 2000 researchers , compared with a total of 76 000 university academics of whom more than 20 000 are professors . |
| 26 | Although the figure is small , it represents a dramatic increase compared with a total of six elected officials in 1962 . |
| 27 | The Wolfson Foundation spends about £17 million a year on medical research ( compared with a total of about £400 million spent by the other charities ) . |
| 28 | Scientists of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research estimated that rainforest destruction in Brazil during the 1989 forest-burning season had totalled some 33,000 sq km by the end of August , compared with a total of 121,000 sq km for 1988 [ see also p. 36793 ] ; the burning season would not end until October . |
| 29 | For example , regular monthly contribution of £30 for 15 years from August , 1976 , would have given you a return of £19,520 compared with a return of £10,261 in a building society higher rate account . |
| 30 | On a scale ranging from 0 ( least satisfied ) to 10 ( most satisfied ) , unemployed men 's average rating was 4–7 — compared with a rating of 7–4 for a group of employed men in Brighton , and 7–5 for men in general in a nationwide survey by the Social Science Research Council ( SSRC ) in the mid-1970s . |