Sentence examples for higher than standards from inspiring English sources

Because this is so much higher than standards in most other states, California requires schools to get needy students up to only 80percentt of the goal, and each year schools must narrow the gap between present achievement and the target by 5percentt.

For the long term, it said, officials responsible for public health and safety should consider a variety of "benchmarks" in use around the world, some far higher than standards in use in this country to protect the public in routine operations and nuclear accidents.

After 21 days curing were submitted to compression tests, the probes presented an average resistance greater than 4 MPa, which is higher than standards.

Standards to assess the validity of tests used by dental professionals for diagnostic purposes must be set higher than standards set forth in population-based screenings used by non-dental health practitioners to guide them in assessing potential future caries risk for use in prevention and referral practices.

Buy-to-let mortgages tend to come with interest rates 1.5 per cent higher than standard.

Ceilings are higher than standard on the ground floor (which means, to stay within budget, they are lower upstairs).

They were mostly shot from 1,000ft, higher than standard shots in the industry, to "amplify the abstract nature of the landscape".

Mr. DeLaney said interest rates on the Homeowner Protection ARM will run about a quarter-percentage point higher than standard ARM's.

The extra money buys you a car that rides 2cm higher than standard, on a suspension set-up that's been tuned for Europe.

There are also hopes of a cut in the 30% supplementary tax charge on North Sea profits, which could reduce total taxes on some oil companies from 60%to50%0% – still much higher than standard corporation tax.

The IC50 values for Au and Ag NPs are higher than standard BHT (Table S1).