Compared to an annual GDP growth rate of 6. 5 % from 1973 to 1980, growth slowed to an average of 2. 9 % a year from 1980 through 1985 and was stagnant from 1986 to 1990.

Compared to records from Hamilton Air Force Base, San Rafael is generally several degrees warmer than Novato and has an average of about more rainfall.

( Compared to the state average class size of 18. 2 students.

Compared to the rest of the country, Marlboro Township's cost of living is 57 % higher than the U. S. average.

Compared to the national average, the 18 to 44 demographic was about half of what was expected.

Compared to the rest of the country, Foster township's cost of living is 13. 30 % Lower than the U. S. average.

Compared to Spokane ( the largest city in the area ), on average, summer and winter temperatures are cooler at night, but very slightly warmer in daytime.

Compared to other travellers of the time, they travelled quickly — an 1839 report cites the travel time as three months and ten days — almost 26 miles ( 40 km ) per day on average.

Compared to other colleges, MUM offers dorm rooms to a higher than average percentage of its students.

Compared with the cities of Toronto, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario and most Ontario municipalities with populations similar in size to the whole of the Niagara Peninsula, the average cost of living is very reasonable.

Compared to 1914, the border of Reich was extended eastwards by some 150 – 200 km on average.

Compared with the average demography of England, Northallerton has low proportions of people born outside the United Kingdom and ethnic minorities and above average numbers of people over 65 years of age.

Compared with most population centres in Australia it has colder winters, especially in terms of its daytime maximum temperatures, and in summer the average ( and absolute ) maximum temperatures are also lower than in most inland centres, on account of its elevation.

Compared to 2010, his batting average dropped 44 points, his homers fell from 26 to 12, and his walks went from 83 to 47 as he grew impatient.

Compared to a pitcher's batting average against, a pitcher's H / 9 benefits from sacrifice bunts, double plays, runners caught stealing, and outfield assists, but it is hurt by some errors.

Compared to surveyed longevities of other breeds of similar size, Basset Griffon Vendéens have a typical or somewhat higher than average life expectancy.

Compared to cities at the same average altitude ( such as Cali ), Bucaramanga has much cooler daytime temperatures due to the cold wind coming down the Eastern peaks ; its night temperatures are not cold due to the warm air coming from the Canyon.

Compared the previous ten year average of storms per season, the 1976 season was considered an average one.

Compared to the average, Hajdú-Bihar has a small number of inhabited places: 19 towns and 62 villages.

Compared to the industry average in that same period sales were down 16 %.

Compared to the average life expectancy of 70 for a typical Asian elephant, Lin Wang lived much longer and died at the age of 86.

Compared to the national average, Rangitoto students achieved very good results in the 2008 New Zealand Scholarship exams.

Compared to Short-toed, that bird is whiter below, warmer and more spotted above, and has a whiter supercilium and slightly shorter bill.

Compared with typical cormorants, the Spotted Shag is a light-coloured bird.

Even Professor Arnold Toynbee, agreeing with his son, does so in these terms: `` Compared to continuing to incur a constant risk of the destruction of the human race, all other evils are lesser evils.

Compared to a single masterd vessel, all the two-masted vessels can have a lower centre of pressure in the sail plan.

Compared to the armies of Genghis, all other armies were heavy and comparatively immobile.

Compared to most other manually operated firearm actions, it offers an excellent balance of strength ( allowing powerful chamberings ), ruggedness, reliability, and potential accuracy, all with light weight and low cost.

Compared to earlier P2P file-sharing program Napster, eDonkey2000 featured " swarming " downloads, meaning that clients could download different pieces of a single file from different peers, effectively utilizing the combined bandwidth of all of the peers instead of being limited to the bandwidth of a single peer.

Compared to link-state protocols, which require a router to inform all the nodes in a network of topology changes, distance-vector routing protocols have less computational complexity and message overhead.

Compared to the 2200 Wang hardware the compiled solutions improve all factors ( speed, disk space, memory, user limits ) by tens to hundreds of times.

" Compared to all extant mammals, the braincase in Nemegtbaatar and Chulsanbaatar is primitive.

Compared to all competing devices at the time, the Audion was unique in that it did not draw significant power from antenna / tuned circuit, which allowed the tuning circuitry to operate with maximum selectivity.

Compared to radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgical operation for the treatment of cancers, PDT is in almost all cases a much cheaper alternative.

He states that " e are confident that there is only one truth, and only one body of knowledge that can serve as the standard … Compared to it, all the other sciences are valid only provisionally ".

Compared to all the competing inhalers and nebulizers, the noise and heavy weight is however still the biggest draw back of the Jet nebulizer.

Compared to most of Shostakovich's other output, especially several of his symphonies, it is all too easy to consider The Song of the Forests a simplistic and overtly accessible " official " piece without remembering the context of the time in which it was written.

Compared with the ketogenic diet, the modified Atkins diet ( MAD ) places no limit on calories or protein, and the lower overall ketogenic ratio ( approximately 1: 1 ) does not need to be consistently maintained by all meals of the day.

Compared to a standard computer science curriculum, students start a very rigorous course with C, advance to object oriented programming with C ++, and all take 2D Windows GUI, 3D graphics and sockets networking.

Compared to the Yamaha RD350B that made 39 crankshaft bhp, the Indian-made HIGH TORQUE made and the later LOW TORQUE made only, all in quest of better fuel economy.

Compared to a population in which all S alleles are co-dominant, the presence of dominance relationships in the population, raises the chances of compatible mating between individuals.

Compared to the large battles to come, all the engagements before the Battle of First Bull Run ( Battle of First Manassas ) are fairly characterized as mere skirmishes.

Compared with MCMC methods, particle filters estimate only the distribution of only one of the latent variables at a time, rather than attempting to estimate them all at once, and produce a set of weighted samples, rather than a ( usually much larger ) set of unweighted samples.

Compared to linked lists, dynamic arrays have faster indexing ( constant time versus linear time ) and typically faster iteration due to improved locality of reference ; however, dynamic arrays require linear time to insert or delete at an arbitrary location, since all following elements must be moved, while linked lists can do this in constant time.

Compared to the Xa, the Xi has high levels of DNA methylation, low levels of histone acetylation, low levels of histone H3 lysine-4 methylation, and high levels of histone H3 lysine-9 methylation, all of which are associated with gene silencing.

Compared to the NHTSA test rig, which simulates the impact from the front end of a passenger car, the taller IIHS test rig simulates the impact of an sport utility vehicle or Pickup truck ( approximately a quarter of all new cars sold ) into the side of the vehicle being tested.

Compared to static multiple choice tests that nearly everyone has experienced, with a fixed set of items administered to all examinees, computer-adaptive tests require fewer test items to arrive at equally accurate scores.

Compared to all claims on cereal boxes, " This one belongs in the hall of fame ," said Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.