The phrase "a comparative sense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the understanding or interpretation of something in relation to other things or contexts.
Example: "In a comparative sense, the results of the study highlight significant differences between the two groups."
Alternatives: "in relative terms" or "from a comparative perspective".
Although recently, evidence has been uncovered indicating that Ks values are under selection in mammals [ 8], they can still be used in a comparative sense to compare the age trends in populations of sequences.
She has an absolute, not a comparative, sense of the animal soul.
In a comparative sense, the significance of our examination of the data lies in the identification of differences in both the PPVT and WAI tests between Indigenous and non-indigenous children.
It is unlikely from the artifacts due to plot of ε ap.-vs.-P (rather than conventional σ-vs.-ε), since the work-hardening/softening is observed in a comparative sense for the nano-/micron-samples under identical stress conditions.
Steeper inequality exists among those in the top tenth of the income scale than elsewhere in the income spectrum, leading to a comparative sense of poorness for many wealthy Americans, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center cited by The New York Times.
Since the acceptability of a given level of risk (including inherent uncertainty) is a matter of negotiation among different stakeholders, all of whom must recognize the impossibility of 'zero risk' for decision-making, the problem context should clearly establish the standard for decision-making such as 'reasonable certainty' or 'safe as' in a comparative sense.
A comparative sensing performance, present challenges, and future prospects of NWs-based FET biosensors are discussed in detail.
They accept, in other words, a weakened form of intuition (1), one that ties wrongdoing in a general way to what has been done to a particular person without requiring that the act under scrutiny make an existing or future person worse off or harm that person (in an intuitive, comparative sense of that term).
In that same comparative sense, it would be cheap to describe it as a personal tragedy.
But poorly paid as they were (though only in the comparative sense; the Ranger salaries ranged from about $400,000 to $13 million), the Rangers walloped the heavily favored Yankees in the playoff.
What emerges is not a sense of a single era of war, but of two very distinct conflicts, the products of very different circumstances, in which the pressures and opportunities facing generals and prime ministers are too diverse to make much comparative sense.
