• Previously only eight beaches had been surveyed so it was not possible to compare like-with-like.

    BBC: High tide of rubbish on Northern Irish beaches

  • Magna is starting out with a "modest" visitor projection of 300, 000 people a year - compare this with the ambitious 12 million that the Millennium Dome had hoped, but failed, to attract.

    BBC: Science centre aims to 'steel' the show

  • Regardless of initial ranking, employees gain the ability to compare self-reflection with outside perception to connect the dots and continuously rise to new levels of stardom.

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  • Customers would also have to be informed how many seats were available for purchase with frequent-flier miles -- carriers haven't made it easy to compare one frequent-flier program with another.

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  • "It's a slightly different case on Anglesey because of the independents but also the election there was delayed by a year due to issues with the council, so you shouldn't compare like-for-like with England, " he said.

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  • But compare it with Italy - which next year has to borrow 307bn just to repay maturing debt.

    BBC: Why investors love lending to the UK government

  • How do cellular stocks compare with fixed-line phone company stocks in Asia?

    CNN: Cell-Phones On the Line

  • But compare it with Wal-Mart, Chung says, which is in a slow-growth, capital-intensive business and trading at 29 times free cash flow.

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  • Compare that with the 3m-plus of the mid-1980s, or the near-3m of December 1992.

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  • It was small, relatively short, and had no control groups on other drug-regimes to compare with.

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  • Compare its elaborate trend-crunching with America Online, which hews to an old broadcast ad model, using sophisticated targeting for only 3% of its ads.

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  • This randomization feature allowed researchers to compare the newly-enrolled group with an equivalent group not selected knowing that there was no selection bias that might produce a spurious result.

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  • Most controversially, they suggest "poor productivity" is due in part to attitudes to work in the UK - which they compare unfavourably with countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.

    BBC: British workers 'among worst idlers', suggest Tory MPs

  • If you compare usage of e-cigarettes with that of regulated smoking cessation methods you find that 8% of adults who smoked cigarettes in the last 12 months used these devices to try to kick the habit.

    FORBES: E-Cigarettes Spark Interest Among Millennials

  • Not many images can compare with the blast-off of the manned spacecraft for summing up a nation's economic and scientific capabilities, which is why so much is riding on this mission's success and why Chinese will be watching and waiting for the Shenzhou VI to touch down safely on the grasslands of inner Mongolia.

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  • One solution is to ignore the scientific reasons underpinning the difference, and to do a big clinical study--probably involving tens of thousands of patients with arthritis--to compare the risk of heart attack for the various drugs.

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  • It went on to list the company's co-operation efforts, and compare the firm to a Silicon Valley start-up with "entrepreneurial spirit" with an "unwavering dedication to innovation".

    BBC: Technology

  • To compare a one-year Danish programme with a cohort of 50 students with a two-year American one with 1, 000 is to court controversy.

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  • The next step is simple, but perhaps hard on the brain and heart-compare what you actually do with what you actually want and examine the differences.

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  • Or an industry critic might see a dry-gas report, compare it with another estimate made on a wet basis, and conclude that production is falling short of expectations.

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  • Compare this with a conventional 6-passenger Honda Accord that gets 34 mpg on the highway, while a 4-passenger Volt typically costs about twice as much (including its tax break).

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  • Facebook, which has 350 million users, keeps its revenues secret, and there are no big publicly-traded companies to compare it with, making it impossible for an outsider to monitor the financial heath of the company.

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  • If you compare this latest three-month figure with the one published last month (i.e. the three months to September), the number out of work has barely changed at all - in fact it has fallen by just 4, 000.

    BBC: UK unemployment: Jobs up, pay down

  • Previous work has shown that parents and offspring can often be paired from the smell of such T-shirts, so the judges were asked to compare the scent of each child's T-shirt with that of two T-shirts worn by men, and identify the shirt that had been worn by the child's father.

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  • Right now, McCain doesn't seem to have much to compare with Obama's 50-State Strategy.

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  • America is keen to compare the 12, 000-page report with its own intelligence on Iraq's weapons programmes.

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  • Or compare it with Europe's bail-out funds, worth several hundred billion dollars and still criticised for being too small.

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  • But it hasn't solved a fundamental problem any buyer or seller faces--how does your price compare with other deals?

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  • Kent can compare his own crash simulations with real-world data gathered from a network of automotive-crash investigators associated with hospitals around the country.

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