The climate of England is milder than that of Scotland.

Also, the quality of water is much lower than that of European Union countries.

In most countries, it should probably be higher than it is now.

The number of students in urban areas is lower than outside urban areas at the ratio of 1 to 4.

Even the gap between Greece and Albania, at three to one, was narrower than it is now.

Family saloons have become bigger than they were in the past, so the larger size has become a preferred option.

The cancer rate in Vieques was 27 percent higher than the average for Puerto Rico as a whole.

In Spain, the unemployment rate then was as high as it is now, and in Italy, it was higher in 1996 than it is today.

At the elevated pressure in the bottle, more carbon dioxide can dissolve in water than at atmospheric pressure.

The Israeli Chamber of Commerce estimates that with the boycott Israeli exports are 10 percent less than they would be without the boycott and investment in Israel likewise 10 percent lower.

In humid conditions, the air feels hotter than it actually is, because of the reduction in evaporation of perspiration.

A reformed Security Council should be more representative, democratic, transparent, accountable and effective than today's.

On the contrary, in some ways, the US emerged from Iraq even more divided than it was when it entered.

Setting the rules of the game for a robust, socially useful financial sector has never been more important.

The sea level was lower than now and Britain was connected by land bridge to Ireland and Eurasia.

The ever stronger voice of Japanese civil society is ardently calling for the elimination of nuclear arsenals.

One can only hope that if that day should ever arrive, the world will be better prepared than it is right now.

Change is nothing new for the Organization, and change has never been more important.

It is obvious that, as difficult as peacekeeping is, it does not hold the subtleties and challenges that peacebuilding entails.

In June 1948, he and Fatima flew to Quetta, in the mountains of Baluchistan, where the weather was cooler than in Karachi.

It was observed that the proposal would make the position clearer than was now the case under the saving clause contained in article 20 of the Convention.

Similarly, the interconnectedness of the issues of peace, security, development and human rights has never been more pronounced than it is today.

Indeed, the conditions for improving the development agenda had never been better.

While investment in peace is always warranted, its merit could not be clearer than in the case of the Sudan.

You're in better shape than I am.

Nothing they said was factually incorrect but they highlighted a few abuses, ignored a lot of context and made it seem a lot worse than it is.

In secondary education, the enrolment rate for girls is slightly higher than the rate for boys, but access for both groups is very limited.

Since security is a key element of many other domains of human life and development, the stakes are much higher than those visible at first sight.

Resuscitated the career, even better than it had been before.

She's much better today than yesterday.

But the other thing is that maybe we could seduce people into stuff that was a little more technical, maybe a little bit more scientific, maybe a little bit more chef y than they otherwise would have.

Like other welfare states, taxpayers pay various subsidies to each other, but with spending being less than in most European countries.

This is less than in cities of similar density, such as Brussels' 483 per 1000, Stockholm's 401, and Oslo's 413.

Evidently, the potential exists for the media to make a far greater contribution to the advancement of women.

He is more lucky than clever.

They take it for granted that what is new is better than what is old.

There are emerging technologies throughout the field around oceanography, which we will incorporate into oceanography, and through that convergence, we will transform oceanography into something even more magical.

Caribbean contemporary art has never been more vibrant than it is now, writes Adele at Thebookmann, as she discusses the work of Trinidadian artist, Ashraph.

He cannot openly challenge Putin s legacy, but he has to position himself as reaching beyond Putin.

These groups are so far completely unknown in terms of morphology and physiology and the radiolarian diversity is therefore likely to be much higher than what is currently known.

Projected income is at a higher level than in the previous biennium, since investment returns are predicted to be more favourable than in 2004 2005.

Now, what that means is that all of the organisms that live in the sea have evolved in this chemostatted ocean, with CO2 levels lower than they are today.

Another is that if people continue to be born, while others do not die, the planet s population will increase at an even faster rate than it is now, which will likewise make life for some much worse than it would have been otherwise.

The first thing is, we're very fortunate that technology is at a point where it is much more advanced than when other countries had the development.

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