How To Use Comparatively In A Sentence

  • My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner. Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last
  • I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
  • Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity.
  • This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
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  • Man, the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the supraciliary ridges or brow prominences usually project but little — while, in the Gorilla, vast crests are developed upon the skull, and the brow ridges overhang, the cavernous orbits, like great penthouses. Essays
  • Granulomata themselves were comparatively infrequent, and other histological features characteristic of Crohn's disease were less conspicuous than usual.
  • A comparatively low level of casualties can demoralize both individual military units and the entire army.
  • Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
  • Thus, units with preinspiratory discharge patterns may have comparatively low thresholds to stimulation by central chemoreceptor afferent inputs relative to inspiratory units.
  • In short, without air superiority mobile forces may be extremely vulnerable and air superiority can probably be guaranteed for only comparatively short periods of time. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
  • Batch process fault diagnose with Petri net is a comparatively active research field at present.
  • The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
  • This thesis makes a comparatively systematic research in the theory of product liability insurance law.
  • Even comparatively powerless and uninfluential lay people must accept some responsibility for the situation.
  • The external changes during growth are comparatively slight and consist mainly of an increase in size at each moult.
  • Elizabeth's dress, of white and gold brocade, is much less elaborate than the ‘Armada’ costume, and the head-dress is comparatively unassuming.
  • It was an interlude of comparatively good government: at least, a period when some infrastructure was built up.
  • It is only comparatively recently that the scale and significance of the Sterkfontein deposits have begun to be fully appreciated.
  • The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion.
  • The fund has produced good performance with comparatively low volatility. Times, Sunday Times
  • # -- Until within a comparatively recent time black was dyed on wool solely by the use of logwood, combined with a few other natural dye-stuffs, such as fustic, indigo, etc., but of late the researches of colour chemists have resulted in the production of a large number of black dyes obtained from various coal-tar products. The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics
  • Neither does Mr. Rosales's theory account at all for auriferous lodes; which below water level are composed of a solid mass of sulphide of iron with traces of other sulphides, gold, calcspar, and a comparatively small percentage of silica. Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
  • This makes them comparatively advantageous from a competitive standpoint. The Myths of Free Market Systems | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • I feel strange seeing Annique so comparatively unclothed, and even stranger as we lie side by side sunbathing. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • Today's techniques for DNA sequencing are comparatively laborious and indirect.
  • And, what's even more galling, we've been told that the sum involved is comparatively trifling, a drop in the ocean of the department's annual budget of €41 billion.
  • It is comparatively easy for anyone to develop a marketing plan showing forecasts and budgets.
  • Background and History Compacts are a comparatively recent phenomenon.
  • Although an animal suffering with a complete and often compound and comminuted fracture of the submaxilla presents at times a serious aspect, the prognosis of the case is comparatively favorable, and recovery is usually only a question of time. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • It had taken 12 years to complete, yet contained a comparatively tiddly 55,000 biographies.
  • Even so, as Table 4.1 shows, wholesale funding remains a comparatively small proportion of total liabilities.
  • The rise of salary caps, luxury taxes and the like in professional sports has forced even comparatively wealthy franchises to lure marquee players with different kinds of incentives.
  • However, you should notice, from column 5, that retail banks hold comparatively large quantities of treasury and commercial bills.
  • We prefer to work with a comparatively small number of clients.
  • The inhabitable areas of New Ireland are comparatively small and confined to the temperate-zone areas adjacent to the single major sea. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
  • Meanwhile, I purpose to give a sketch of TIMROD'S life, which, though comparatively brief, and to an exceptional degree uneventful, is still of interest, as throwing much light upon the character of his verses, and the development of his genius. The Poems of Henry Timrod.
  • Given the diversity of seminaries, neither would it be fair to rank them comparatively based on selectivity and other factors that are goads to quality in fields such as business and law.
  • If the bicarbonate is used, and heat is applied gradually, steam and carbonic acid are given off at a comparatively low temperature, and the carbonate is left; at a higher temperature (about 800° C., or a cherry-red heat) the carbonate fuses attacking the quartz, and giving off more carbonic acid; as the heat increases, and the attack on the quartz (which of itself is infusible) becomes complete, the whole mass settles down to a liquid sodium silicate, which is sufficiently fluid to allow the gold and lead to settle to the bottom. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts. 'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
  • She appealed for the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion.
  • The severity of the symptoms depends to a large extent on the rapidity of growth of the tumour; thus an osteoma growing slowly from the inner table of the skull and implicating the brain may reach a considerable size without producing cerebral symptoms, while a comparatively small sarcoma or syphilitic gumma of rapid growth may endanger life. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Trading was comparatively light in both currency and equity markets, but the collapse in confidence seemed widespread.
  • This one has the classic lychee and rose-petal aromas but is comparatively light and refreshing on the palate.
  • These critics often live comparatively charmed lives in security and comfort. The Sun
  • In short, without air superiority mobile forces may be extremely vulnerable and air superiority can probably be guaranteed for only comparatively short periods of time. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
  • Crime on the island is comparatively rare .
  • Comparatively little is known about the prevalence of medical error outside hospitals.
  • The radial and ulnar arteries may be exposed and ligatured in any part of their course; but of the two, the radial vessel can be reached with greater facility, owing to its comparatively superficial situation. Surgical Anatomy
  • These critics often live comparatively charmed lives in security and comfort. The Sun
  • Again, we contacted only a comparatively small sample of hairdressers, so it may be worth checking a few yourself.
  • It is a finely ground mixture of pork and beef with a comparatively bland seasoning.
  • The comparatively large sums involved conferred on all these agencies a substantial power of patronage over recipient institutions.
  • The war had by this time produced two comparatively new industries. One was the issuing of "shinplaster" currency, and the other was the manufacture of fruit brandy. The end of an era,
  • Bateman's own billfold stuffer proved comparatively inadequate—merely "bone" in hue with a "Silian Rail" lettering. Leaving the Right Impression
  • It is comparatively easy to write about deprivation - to record the pathos of living in misery.
  • It is at least comparatively straightforward to police gambling in this country, where betting is legal and therefore subject to scrutiny. Times, Sunday Times
  • Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity.
  • It will seem strange to many of my critics who regard me as a typical laudator temporis acti that this question should have arisen so comparatively late in my life. Surprised by Joy
  • Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
  • Preservation is comparatively poor and nearly all the material is crushed and deformed.
  • If the project is a success, other patients will benefit from a surprising application of a comparatively new technology.
  • In ordinary circumstances when windsails, fanners, or other powers have been introduced with the view of promoting ventilation, they have in general acted locally, with various effect, influencing powerfully the state of the atmosphere at one place, while in others it remained comparatively unaffected.
  • The analysis, although comparatively fine-grained, is not sufficient to generalize the conclusion to future years.
  • Ruby's letter ran as follows (we say his _letter_, because the other letter was regarded, comparatively, as nothing): -- The Lighthouse
  • The Toxo mosquito, when in a larvae state, has the nature to feed on the comparatively smaller sized anopheles and culex larvae.
  • Now you will notice that both those countries severed their connection with the past in comparatively modern times. Canada's Heritage of British Traditions
  • I don't know about you, but I've learned comparatively little since the age of eleven.
  • Therefore this apparent reduction in their rate of occurrence is a reflection of the comparatively shorter period of monitoring during the procedure.
  • Although comparatively free from pebbles or lumps of foreign matter, we detect in some of the coarser specimens small particles of mica and grains of other materials, and in one broken specimen the elytron of a small coleopterous insect. Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pa
  • Please do warn innocent and comparatively naive people about these English parasites. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can scarcely avoid finding something of interest archaeologists have recorded close on 400 ring forts of earth and stone in this comparatively small area. A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
  • Alabama to demonstrate that two light, and, as regards equipment, comparatively insignificant vessels of war would have little difficulty in driving from the ocean a flag which, three years ago, might have been seen upon every wave of every sea. Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
  • In 1857 a government investigating committee learned from landlords in the Five Points that “in some of the better class of houses built for the tenantry, Negroes have been preferred as occupants to Irish or German poor; the incentive of possessing comparatively decent quarters appearing to inspire the colored residents with more desire for personal cleanliness and regard for property than is impressed upon the whites of their own condition.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • If not, they might at least learn to submit unrepiningly to that comparatively moderate degree of notice and regard which is the due of those who are perfectly ordinary in their minds, and fit only to take a place amongst the audience. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852
  • Because of this our extremely complex mechanisms become comparatively simple to organize.
  • Edith was very unwell — & when she recovered we were confined by bad weather — so that I saw little of the place. enough however not to like. the road from Winchester thither is remarkably beautiful; so much so as to make the New forest about Lyndhurst & Lymington appear comparatively uninteresting. here we are in a very different country. Letter 220
  • In contrast, acquiring a large horse pack train was fairly easy and comparatively cheap.
  • Tolstoy set out for Germany in 1857, anxious to study social conditions that he might learn how to raise the hapless serfs of Russia, bound, patient and inarticulate, at the feet of landowners, longing for independence, perhaps, when they suffered any terrible act of injustice, but patient in the better times when there was food and warmth and a master of comparatively unexacting temper. Heroes of Modern Europe
  • It is so common to observe on the same plant, flowers indifferently tetramerous, pentamerous, &c., that I need not give examples; but as numerical variations are comparatively rare when the parts are few, I may mention that, according to De Candolle, the flowers of Papaver bracteatum offer either two sepals with four petals (which is the common type with poppies), or three sepals with six petals. VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
  • It is remarkable, also, that we are enabled to superpose and obtain the maximum effects on thin strips of iron from ¼ to ½ millimeter in thickness, while in thicker rods we have far less effect, being masked by the comparatively neutral state of the interior, the exterior molecules then reaching upon those of the interior, allowing them to complete in the interior their circle of attractions. Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
  • Beers of the German type are less heavily hopped and more peptonized than English beers, and more highly charged with carbonic acid, which, owing to the low fermentation and storing temperatures, is retained for a comparatively long time and keeps the beer in condition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Simultaneously with this, we pushed ahead on a similar activity designed to remove nickel from the armament class or a material used in comparatively small amounts in nickel silver, plating, coinage and nickel steel into a metal of universal application. Factors in Developing a Mineral Deposit
  • Prices hold comparatively firm.
  • She appealed for the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion.
  • While others had comparatively modest ambitions, her heart was set on becoming a star.
  • Comparatively little has been done to share in the multifarious and extensive manufactures of lower Clydesdale, but the weaving of winceys, shirtings, and druggets is the staple industry; and there are also 3 artificial manure works, a tannery, 2 breweries, a large fancy woodwork establishment, and, ¾ mile from the town, the extensive factory of the British Oil and Candle Co.
  • The breaking stresses of stems are comparatively easy to measure empirically.
  • This is tolerable as long as the level of that tax is comparatively low.
  • Right through the summer, Jeremy would stand at the top of a tall wooden ladder in those boxy, airless rooms in the Leeper building, wearing, I recall, comparatively tight-fitting shorts, while I did my best to read off the shelf lists (meaning drawers densely laden with cards), performing this function from as advantageously configured a vantage point below. The Earth Goddess
  • The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion.
  • Most agents agree that a let-up in prices was inevitable as properties had been achieving comparatively high prices under the hammer.
  • This high velocity enabled a design requiring a comparatively small "reaction mass". Anti-Ice
  • Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux. Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
  • Her sister took possession of me, and of her papers, and the wedding-ring -- now in the custody of Dettermain and Newson -- together with the portraits of both my parents; and she, poor soul, to sustain me, as I verily believe -- she had a great idea of my never asking unprofitably for anything in life -- bartered the most corroborative of the testificatory documents, which would now make the establishment of my case a comparatively light task. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6
  • The flora is largely derived from that of south-eastern Polynesia, but is comparatively depauperate, due to the remoteness and the young geological age of the island.
  • For that comparatively early flying era, in the early Forties, its flying range was quite remarkable. SAN ANDREAS
  • Upon these conditions , the flavor components of natural fermentation and inoculating fermentation sauerkraut were analysed comparatively.
  • Lastly, with respect to karyokinesis, although it is true that the microscope has in comparatively recent years displayed this apparently important distinction between unicellular and multicellular organisms, two considerations have here to be supplied. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • Another peculiarity of foods of this kind that makes decidedly against their digestibility lies in the fact that, being soft and containing a large proportion of water, they are scarcely ever properly chewed, and as a consequence they are swallowed in comparatively large masses without having been adequately insalivated. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
  • If he could only be assured of their being dead, he would have been comparatively happy; but he saw, in imagination, his mother in the cotton-field, followed by a monster task-master, and no one to speak a consoling word to her. The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad. By Wm. Wells Brown. With a Memoir of the Author.
  • Comparatively few sophisticated clients will touch licensed dealers with a bargepole.
  • Cuper knows he will land a plum job, one with near unlimited funds, where winning silverware will be comparatively simple.
  • Thunder eggs with minimal or no external ribs and of a comparatively uniform spherical shape (locally known as ‘cannon balls’) are composed only of siliceous, devitrified rhyolite without a central cavity.
  • For the time being anyway, since no one is entirely sure exactly where in the Lowthers the gold comes from, panning remains a weekend hobby that demands endless patience for comparatively tiny financial rewards.
  • This is tolerable as long as the level of that tax is comparatively low.
  • A driving force in this resistance, as he presented it, was class conflict: the desire of people of comparatively low socio-economic status to undermine or even usurp the consuetudinary power not only of clergymen, but of lawyers and doctors as well.
  • In addition to these main lines of work, many observations of a miscellaneous character were made, including those on the occurrence and nature of parhelia or “mock suns,” which were very common, and generally finely developed, and observations of the auroral displays, which were few and rather poor owing to the comparatively low magnetic latitude. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
  • In the poverty to which most of the South had been reduced, they were comparatively affluent. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • I should stress the word "comparatively," because many times those who are more successful within a family are also having their own financial problems, but because they do not exhibit the same signs of struggle as other family members, often they are viewed as "well off. Ryan Mack: Tell "Ray-Ray" to Get a Job!
  • In both cases, liberty refers to the freedom of person within comparatively narrow confines.
  • In the articulation with which we are dealing, however, these last two symptoms are not easily detected, for the surrounding structures -- namely, the lateral and other ligaments of the joint, the extensor pedis tendon in front, and the perforans behind, together with the dense and comparatively unyielding nature of the skin of the parts -- are such as to prevent distension and fluctuation becoming marked to a visible extent. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
  • If man does not shun and turn away from evils as sins, therefore, the external and at the same time the internal of his thought and will are infected and destroyed, comparatively as the pleura is by the disease in it called pleurisy, of which the body dies. Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence
  • Even the quintessential Good Book abounds in naughty passages like the men in II Kings 18: 27 who, as the comparatively tame King James translation puts it, “eat their own dung, and drink their own piss.” EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore
  • In addition, Cats’ dogteeth are very long and comparatively very slender so the bite wound is too deep to wash itself by bleeding out and is nearly anaeroobic. I r hear for the potluck! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Partnership incentive schemes are comparatively rare but can result in a highly motivated and dedicated work-force.
  • Lebanon (that is, the cool melted snow water of Lebanon, as he presently explains), which cometh from the rock of the field (a poetical name for Lebanon, which towers aloft above the surrounding field, or comparatively plain country)? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Playing stoolball is comparatively cheap, and it doesn't need an immaculate pitch so it can be played almost anywhere.
  • Black to brown colors predominate, whereas orange-gold colors are common and reds are comparatively rare.
  • Please do warn innocent and comparatively naive people about these English parasites. Times, Sunday Times
  • His journal comments on the comparatively depressed state of the countryside, the untilled fields, ill nourished stock, abysmal roads and poor isolated villages.
  • But the trauma of even comparatively simple surgery can cause some people to experience short-term problems with memory and logical thought.
  • Its comparatively short stature means it may need mowing only once or twice a summer.
  • She has been comparatively sparing in the room, and the nourishment necessary to rear them.
  • Policy analysis needs to be concerned with a flow of interrelated policies, with abrupt changes of direction a comparatively rare occurrence.
  • Don't big-boned passengers occupy comparatively more space standing up? Times, Sunday Times
  • Rulers of these comparatively minor states were engaged in a fierce cultural competition, designed to add honour and lustre to their dynasty.
  • Soviet capabilities for the long range projection of power in the Third World were comparatively ineffectual.
  • The Maidstone fairground was a comparatively small affair, a number of sideshows, various stalls, bingo stands, several carousels. CONFESSIONAL
  • The ordinary gallows is comparatively humane; the victim falls through a trap and drops far enough to break his neck and he dies instantly. The Approaching Climax
  • During their comparatively brief geological lifespan mosasaurs were nonetheless very successful, and following their first appearance in the Turonian they rapidly became abundant in epicontinental seas worldwide.
  • With these data it is comparatively easy to ascertain the quantity of food which produced the increase in the animal's weight; but they do not enable us to determine the amount expended in keeping it alive, because the egesta might be largely made up of unappropriated food -- organised matter which had done no work in the animal body. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
  • Comparatively young and at the height of her powers and popularity, Baker was adamant.
  • During this decade, whilst there was increased competition, comparatively few policyholders decided to change underwriters with one particular exception.
  • Soviet capabilities for the long range projection of power in the Third World were comparatively ineffectual.
  • It is not so easy to see why some other birds have become comparatively scarce.
  • This is due to the fact that creatine as well as the simple sugars found in today's creatine formulas, such as dextrose and maltodextrin, have a comparatively high osmolality rate.
  • This life dwelt in Him during His earthly ministry, though comparatively few availed themselves of it; His death set it abroach for all the world; the smitten rock yielded streams of living water; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit; from His throne He proclaimed Himself as He that liveth, though He became dead, and is alive forevermore. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
  • The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion.
  • These countries are comparatively well endowed with physical capital. Competing in a Global Economy
  • For they suggest that more is at stake in the dispute about holism than the comparatively technical notion of reducibility.
  • The media system is not monolithic - dissident material does appear, comparatively honest documentaries are seen.
  • It is strange to relate that this well-known symbol has been comparatively neglected by social scientists and especially by social psychologists.
  • I immediately rode so close to him that his assagai was comparatively harmless, and, seizing him by the collar of his karosse (or tiger-skin cloak), I found I could shake him in his seat. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the camp at dawn, and went all over the same ground, but with no better success, only seeing a couple of bara singh, hornless now, and therefore comparatively uninteresting from a "shikar" point of view. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
  • The unit is comparatively easy to install and cheap to operate.
  • Should the road traversed be comparatively clear of opposing troops, 20 miles may be covered in a very short space of time. Times, Sunday Times
  • We studied the referral rates for dermatology across the 16 practices in a primary care group with a comparatively uniform population mix.
  • In Navarre both Jews and Mudejares suffered episodes of persecution less frequently than elsewhere in Spain, so their living conditions were comparatively better than in other areas of the peninsula.
  • It is also found in some comparatively rare minerals, such as tetradymite, combined with tellurium, and associated with gold. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • Thanks to low taxation, alcohol in Japan is comparatively cheap and is consumed with vigour.
  • All that whitewater is headed for shore on top of comparatively calm water down below.
  • Notably, HE1327-2326 is not a giant but a dwarf or sub-giant star, meaning that it is comparatively unevolved.
  • And I think there’s something to Lasky’s idea that Anderson shifts in Tenenbaums from a model of autonomous, tragedy-laced genius towards a comparatively more hopeless one of psychological and psychochemical dysfunction: Genius in the Works of Wes Anderson « Gerry Canavan
  • The very luxuriance of the vegetation, however, with its unlimited hiding-places for cryptozoic animals, made the task of collection more difficult than it would have been in a clearer neighbourhood, where the animals are concentrated, as it were, in a comparatively few spots.
  • If this explanation was the true one, it became comparatively easy to suggest the cure.
  • Uruguay is a very thinly covered country, entirely settled from Europe in comparatively modern times; a grazing country, not ordinary agriculture, almost all pastoral pursuits, a very prosperous, a very hardy people, a little fond of turning their political differences into fights, but otherwise a stable people, bound to be heard from in an important way as the world grows older. A Trip Through South America
  • The stipites throughout the genus are conspicuously dilated for about half their length from the base upward, the other (apical) portion of them being comparatively very narrow.
  • They are basically space-saving lamps that are designed to throw a comparatively shadow-free circle of light upon the ground.
  • He was comparatively calm and concentrated in judging how to defeat his opponent.
  • The comparatively open spaces made for a relaxed atmosphere as a very laid-back audience stretched out in the warm weather to enjoy the sounds wafting over from the main stage.
  • Ten years ago we had both a comparatively low rate of tax and cost advantages.
  • These are unsuitable for use in mobile devices because of their comparatively high cost and energy consumption. Times, Sunday Times
  • In all countries, children of high birth order have comparatively poor survival chances.
  • The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked.
  • A mix of tungsten and plastic polymer, it's 97 percent as dense as lead and even softer, which results in comparatively loose, long-range patterns. Heavy Metals
  • Some of these grounds are comparatively obvious and relatively non-controversial.
  • Not only will the bloom of crowded plants be comparatively poor and brief, but by early and bold thinning the plants will become so robust, and cover such large spaces of ground with their ample leafage and well-developed flowers, as really to astonish people who think they know all about annuals, and who may have ventured after much ill-treatment to designate them 'fugacious and weedy.' The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
  • In general it appears that a man or a woman whose occupation is what we call sedentary, who is without vigorous exercise and does but little hard muscular work, needs much less than the man at hard manual labor, and that the brain worker needs comparatively little of carbohydrates or fats. Public School Domestic Science
  • But the rocket, known to the British as the "buzz bomb" or the "doodlebug," was also easily spotted and comparatively slow, making it vulnerable to antiaircraft fire and enemy fighters. June 13, 1944: V-1 Rocket Ushers in a New Kind of Warfare
  • Thus donations of blood will be comparatively easy to justify, but giving a kidney would be more problematic.
  • Since then, Bishop has maintained a comparatively low profile.
  • The public baths, with their pool, were comparatively modest for so important a town.
  • Is it possible that conservatives are actually the intellectuals, reading books and playing with ideas and thinking about issues, while liberals are, at least comparatively, the unreflective know-nothings?
  • This suggests the existence of a comparatively long-lived quiescent tectonic regime over that interval.
  • Violent crime, theft and fraud are down, while criminal damage is comparatively low.
  • The Faculty in those days was comparatively small, and still dominated by old men who were primarily literary historians.
  • The fund has produced good performance with comparatively low volatility. Times, Sunday Times
  • She appealed for the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of £4 billion.
  • Sexual characteristic of tight plant type maize and its comparatively high -yield cultivation technique.
  • Since then, Bishop has maintained a comparatively low profile.
  • The other noble metal is silver, comparatively scarce in nature but easily beaten into shapes where its gleaming silver colour reminded the ancients of the Moon.
  • With no credit card debts to pay, their total outgoings should be a fair bit lower than they are now and as they're comparatively young, they're not fussed about extending the term of the mortgage.
  • _Ascomycetes_ are comparatively rare, and very few species indeed of Himalayan Journals — Complete
  • Comparatively, the couple of decades preceding 1880 were very humid: lakes stood high, mountain glaciation was extensive, and precipitation more abundant. Think Progress » Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign About Gore Movie
  • Thus far, however, Xavier had seen only a few seaports of comparatively successful daimi [= o] s. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
  • You pay a comparatively heavy price in terms of fuel economy and driving style compared with a saloon car or hatchback. Times, Sunday Times
  • We now give an example of a cipher that operates on bigrams but uses only comparatively few of all possible keys.
  • The latest generation of drugs that are comparatively cheaper offer great promise.
  • Root starches do not gel, and generally the cold paste remains comparatively clear.
  • Comparatively speaking , this part of the coast is still unspoiled.
  • Many are the families of comparatively recent inward migrants from the time of rapid industrialization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Global Marketplace
  • The problematic move from looking to touching is exemplified in the Western art of the nude where, until comparatively recently, bodies were sanitized, desexualized, and idealized.
  • Comparatively few books have been written on the subject.
  • This made it possible to use one string for several different notes, and explains why the clavichord or clavicembalo needed comparatively few strings. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
  • Until comparatively recently, living organisms were divided into two kingdoms: animal and vegetable, or the Animalia and the Plantae.
  • The hypertrophied or newly formed tissue may be limited to the rectum, leaving the anal tissues comparatively exempt from the superabundant cicatricial formation; or the hypertrophy may involve, to quite a degree, only the anal tissues and the integument around the anal orifice. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • Besides, to a child of positive traits, those persuasions are utterly forceless which, instead of being addressed to the prominent faculties, are directed to those comparatively deficient. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
  • In the howdunit stage the so - called "medical mystery" gained much popularity, and after the turn of the century the comparatively simple "medical mystery" matured into the more complex "scientific detective story. In The Queens' Parlour
  • A juvenile troupe, 1917 Despite the fact that the Ballroom shows had comparatively short runs, every production was spectacular.

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