Sentence examples for compared to a first from inspiring English sources

Compared to a first generation oxy-combustion process, the SPOC process results in an increased net plant efficiency of about 6 percentage points.

This relative distance is used by the SMNN and compared to a first rejection threshold to accept, or reject, the incoming characters.

Compared to a first insufficient biostimulation phase, bioaugmentation with Rhodococcus erythropolis T902.1 led to a HC depletion of almost 80% (6900 to 1600 ppm) in 3 months in the center of the contaminated zone, where pollutants were less bioavailable.

Although the outside option has not been studied in the context of fourth price auctions, Kirchkamp et al. (2009) found that in second price auctions the introduction of outside options has only small effects as compared to a first price auction.

Emanuel's ranking in the black community has fallen sharply since the school closing announcements, with 48percentt disapproving of his performance at the half-way point of his first term, compared to a third disapproving a year ago, according to a Chicago Tribune poll released two weeks ago.

"While it may seem like a lot of money, it's relatively cheap compared to a first-rate Impressionist painting".

About 57% of secondary schools consider themselves to be in the same position, compared to a third in 2001.

In the countryside, over half the squares had active setts, compared to a third in the mid-1980s.

It has been compared to "a second Middle East", with oil and gas reserves thought to represent 17% and 30%, respectively, of the global total.

Seventy-three per cent of poor, rural women who underwent abortions had complications, compared to a third of non-poor, urban women.

It adds that only 13% of universities with the highest entry requirements increased their full-time student numbers, compared to a third of those with the lowest requirements.