Sentence examples for compared to a Victorian from inspiring English sources

It's been compared to a Victorian novel.

Ten highly reactive specimens were from Victorian patients, compared to an expected number of 1.1 for the 6-month period (p < 0.0001).

The tales of gang warfare and football hooliganism in Action, a short-lived comic of the late 1970s, were compared to gruesome Victorian penny dreadfuls by the Sun, a tabloid newspaper not known for shying away from sensationalism.

There's a lot of talk about how we live in a sexually free society, especially when compared to repressed Victorian era.

The living room is "a direct descendant of the multi-purpose Medieval Great Hall," while the vegetable patch is compared to the Victorian gardens of Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire: "The parallels are indisputable".

Dealing with online profiles, mobile "speed dating" apps, or even "biodata" sheets is nothing compared to the Victorian Age.

Sports Direct is facing a potential investor revolt at the AGM after the Guardian revealed poor working conditions at its Shirebrook warehouse, which MPs compared to those at a Victorian workhouse.

He was compared to the great Victorian actor, Sir Henry Irving, who was capable of mesmerising an audience.

Available population data suggest refugee-background children in Victoria are far more likely to live in poverty compared to Victorian children overall and face multiple barriers to accessing health services [ 2].

MPs later compared it to a Victorian workhouse.

Several less-than-gracious exchanges at the dispatch box have led to David Cameron being compared to Flashman, the fictional Victorian public-school bully and coward from Tom Brown's Schooldays who went on to star in a series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser.