In comparative terms, more rural facilities had in place better standard practices in these areas than urban facilities.
Stating some outcome is increased or decreased (or greater or lesser) and parenthetically stating the p (or other statistical) value immediately after the comparative terms more effectively conveys information than merely stating two values and then providing a probability value (in the same or a following sentence) without stating how or in which direction the two values differ.
More comparative studies of long-term operation of OWTs under field conditions in other parts of the world are needed to further quantify performance capabilities.
They would be surprised that carnival is considered a crime-ridden cultural pariah by certain sections of the British press, and they would no doubt be horrified that an event attracting 2m people should operate on what is, in comparative terms, little more than a shoestring.
Comparative terms such as more than/less than can also lead to difficulties.
Yes, America was more pro-market than other countries, but in comparative terms, America in 1950s and 60s was a lot more left-wing than it is now.
In comparative terms, the Melbourne Manifesto is more specific in its guidelines and therefore potentially more useful as a tool than is the Commonwealth Code.
In comparative terms, lung cancer causes more cases of cancer than any other type and three times as many deaths as the next two most lethal types of cancers (colo-rectal and breast).
If we all spend more on weddings, fast cars, or designer handbags, then, in comparative terms, no one feels any happier.
That is, structurally, the affective system is designed to perform evaluations in a manner that is inherently more comparative than the cognitive system, focusing more on the relative ranking of various alternatives than their assessment in absolute terms.
