So compared to the enormity of that, Blair or me are nothing".
Even so, compared to The Paperboy, this looks like a masterpiece.
So, compared with the US, a passenger plane is a socialist utopia.
"So compared to birds it turns out that the wakes are also substantially more complicated".
So compared to him, Obama lives the life of a raging sybarite.
Ninety-five per cent of students who went for a walk were able to do so, compared to only fifty per cent of those who never stood up.
Cardiologists' patients were the most likely to report using aspirin, with 38percentt saying they did so, compared with 12percentt for general practitioners' patients.
"We've got 42 aircraft and 1600 cabin crew – so compared to some of our competitors that's quite a manageable number," he points out.
And justifiably so: compared with damming the Hudson, the idea of, say, fixing and maintaining Manhattan's aging sewer system seems like the definition of tedium.
By the end of the story, he has succeeded in this goal, and so, compared to Lin Hong, he is perhaps the true victor.
So compared with Republican efforts of recent years, her response to Barack Obama's state-of-the-union message was a success.
