The phrase
"than expansion" is a comparison between two things.
Full definition
Contrary to previous findings, the new results reveal that the rate of population change has grown much more rapidly
than the expansion of urban land.
The companies are telling us that while they plan to raise spending, the planned increases are modest or tied to maintenance
rather than expansion.
Therefore, I think a space like CCA, Lagos can be considered a continuation
more than an expansion of what they did because we still need those spaces of identification.
Scientists said that the nebula is expanding at more than 43,000 miles an hour, while the center is moving
faster than the expansion of the main ring.
I was unaggressive and nonauthoritative; I was more interested in
intimacy than expansion; I avoided ecclesiastical trappings and tried to promote service to the neighborhood instead of the internal activities of an organized church.
Grocery suppliers have more to fear from retailers trying to lift sales of fresh
food than the expansion of private label products, says Nielsen executive director of retail services Kosta Conomos.
«At a time when the American auto industry has seen more
retraction than expansion, we're extremely pleased to be a partner for growth.»
In a study published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, the researchers provide evidence to suggest that urban populations have grown more
rapidly than the expansion of urban areas, leading to increased population densities in some of the most populated yet vulnerable regions in the world.
This is the sort of follow - up that's
bigger than an expansion pack but far lesser in scope than a true sequel; it simply feels like a full - length game's worth of additional content shoved into the previous game's framework.
You Monster is not so much an expansion for Defense Grid - it's probably more accurately called a mash -
up than an expansion.
Now a study in this week's edition of the journal Nature, «Climate Change and the Global Malaria Recession,» squarely concludes that the ongoing shrinkage of areas where the disease is endemic is many times more
significant than any expansion of the potential malaria threat from climate change.
It's a small effect, much smaller in the
atmosphere than the expansion due to the reduction in pressure as the air rises, but the reduction in volume at a given pressure due to condensation is included in accurate computations of adiabatic lapse rates.
And when comparing the Dark Below content to what is introduced in a typical massively multiplayer online (MMO) game patch,
rather than expansion pack, the material comes off more favourably.
In other words, democratisation is nothing
more than the expansion of the publishing process from the few to the many.
If anything, the current environment is one where the industry is likely to see the playing field leveled by less aggressive regulatory oversight for banks rather
than any expansion of regulatory authority for fintechs, he adds.
Oil prices are buoyant, oil major earnings appear to be looking up, but the oil industry is still entering an «age of restraint» rather
than expansion, according to the co-head of European equity research at Goldman Sachs.
Rather
than expansion, the new Government would focus on making the best use of existing capacity.
«Business confidence clearly needs to rise before employment growth will pick up again, but at the moment the surveys suggest that companies remain worried about economic growth both at home and abroad and are generally erring towards cost - cutting rather
than expansion,» Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, commented.
It's an extension, perhaps, more
than an expansion — more of the same sort of thing, but with a slightly different flavour — but given how much fun Second Son was, that's no bad thing.
But a focus on increasing yields, rather
than expansion, could increase soy production without causing ecosystem destruction.