Sentence examples for like relative from inspiring English sources

Gilts with face values of £100 always pay £100 in principal upon maturity, even if that is worth less than you might like relative to goods and services.

Like relative humidity, the effect of temperature is much more marginal.

The quizzes focus on mastering structural blocks, like relative pronouns or a particular class of nouns.

While this is an important factor in selecting targets for research, other variables like relative cost, solvability and societal impact must also be considered.

Indeed, Mr. Bradshaw at Merrill Lynch said, the calculation among many of those offering what seem like relative bargains for Internet access is "you have to take some short-term pain" before profits kick in.

This gap helps to explain why Spain has been able to defend its market share in world trade even though it has become less competitive on gauges like relative unit-labour costs.Whether the economy rides out the euro-area crisis will depend on which Spain prevails the more competitive version or the hidebound one.

Although the neutral theory of ecological communities (Hubbell 2001) has successfully explained a number of community patterns, notably the lognormal-like relative abundance distribution (Volkov et al. 2003, 2007), it has failed to explain beta turnover in Panama and Amazonian forests (Condit et al. 2002).

Recently, the diffusion and drift in the periodic potential surface of the interaction energy dependent on the displacement z along the nanotube axis and the angle φ of the rotation about the nanotube axis were considered for the thread-like relative motion of walls of double-walled carbon nanotubes [28, 29].

Frank and Agrawal observed a ratchet-like relative rotation of the two ribosomal subunits.

In support of this hypothesis, SeCobAF91W displays a drastically diminished catalytic activity because of the misalignment of the corrinoid substrate, even though it achieves wild-type-like relative yields of formation of 4c Co II Cbl and Co II Cbi+.

Woolly mammoths -- large, hairy prehistoric elephant-like relatives -- supposedly have been extinct for thousands of years.