Sentence examples for comparison towns from inspiring English sources
For these three periods, Fallon medians are higher than those of comparison towns, and this tungsten increase through time in Fallon is significant (Table 1).
Fallon is distinctive spatially by its elevated airborne tungsten and cobalt relative to comparison towns and outlying desert areas (ATSDR 2003a; CDC 2003b; Sheppard et al. 2006a, 2007c).
However, for the next three time periods, median tree-ring tungsten in Fallon increases whereas that of comparison towns remains relatively constant.
Tungsten emission in Sweet Home, Oregon, began in November 2000, and tree-ring tungsten in cottonwoods near the emission source increased at that time relative to comparison towns in central Oregon.
During the tree-ring period centered on 1995, corresponding to just before the onset of the leukemia cluster, Fallon tree-ring tungsten began trending upward and was significantly higher than Nevada comparison towns.
Median tree-ring cobalt in Fallon is higher than in comparison towns for all periods, but there is no significant increase in cobalt through time within Fallon (Table 1).
Second, it appears that the "comparison town" data comprise the Douglas-fir data from Crawfordsville, Oregon, and data on Douglas-firs and cottonwoods from Sweet Home.
Before 1992, median tungsten levels in Fallon tree rings differed little from those in the comparison Nevada towns, but rose thereafter to levels significantly higher than those in the other towns.
In comparison, others towns (e.g., Moscow, Washington after Mt. St. Helens 1980 eruption) which have experienced tephra fall have prioritised clean-up by working systematically across a built up area (Hayes et al. 2015; Kartez and Kelley 1980).
By comparison, REconomy, Transition Town and similar initiatives focus on developing sustainable, ecologically-sound solutions that benefit local communities.
Stockport, in comparison, was a town on the edge of things, and perhaps that's where writers are happiest, on the charged edges of places.
