Sentence examples for degrees compared to from inspiring English sources

Statewide, Obama won forty-four per cent of the vote of whites without college degrees, compared to McCain's fifty-four per cent — comparable to the results four years ago.

In addition, New Hampshire residents are better educated than the country at large: 32.9 percent have college degrees compared to 27.9 percent nationally.

With two weeks of observations, they have mapped out its orbit fairly precisely -- it circles around the Sun once every 837 days at a steep tilt of 42 degrees compared to the orbits of the planets.

In total, 96 per cent of these institutions' recent graduates were working or studying six months after finishing their degrees – compared to 95 per cent at Cambridge and just 92 per cent at Oxford.

When high-scoring students from low-income families are compared to similarly high-scoring students from upper-income families, 80 percent of the those in the top quarter of the income distribution go on to get college degrees, compared to just 44 percent of those in the bottom quarter.

Salmon sharks can elevate their body temperatures by up to 20 degrees compared to the surrounding water, for example.

Nearly 50% of constituents are educated to at least degree level, compared to 27% nationally.

Some 72% of students who graduated from Liverpool this summer left with a first-class or upper second degree compared to 63% last year.

Just over 30percentt of the entire labor force aged 25 and over has a college or advanced degree compared to more than 57percentt of Muslim workers.

Only 5% of rioters said they had a degree, compared to around 20% of the UK population as a whole (based on 2001 census data) – though around 44% of rioters were in education.

One in four newcomers had a four-year college degree, compared to one in six of the black adults who had already lived in the South.