Sentences with phrase «than the rest of the country»

As a result, people who live in certain parts of the country get charged significantly higher rates than the rest of the country.

The Portuguese winger has a chance to perform better than the rest of the country.

We're not any different than the rest of the country.

The native people are different in culture than the rest of the country, strongly rooted in times long before than the Spanish era even began.

It's not just bigger than the rest of the country during this period of time, it's bigger than anything we've ever seen.

On the other hand, state legislators are more likely to support charter schools than the rest of the country.

Our downturn was quicker than the rest of the country.

There are many reasons that contributed to a state - wide trend of higher insurance rates than the rest of the country.

Insurance rates may be higher than the rest of the country in Olive Branch, especially considering many residents spend quite a bit of time commuting.

Despite sporting a health care system that ranks in the bottom 25 % nationally, Georgians still pay more on average than the rest of the country for group health insurance coverage.

Idaho real estate is a bit less expensive than the rest of the country on average.

It also shows how the U.S. South and West have felt more pain than the rest of the country because of the severity of the housing sector's downturn there, and provides evidence that the self - employed and business owners have taken it on the chin in recent years.

A booming energy sector means, once again, that Alberta will grow faster than the rest of the country.

The figures may be influenced by the fact Christians on average older than the rest of the country.

In Sydney, host of the 2000 Olympics, foreign tourism grew at a slower rate than the rest of the country in the three years following the Games.

Tampa Bay explained,» Kitten season in Florida actually goes longer than the rest of the country because it is so warm here so basically what that means is we have lots and lots of kittens.»

This is a culture that includes different races and religions and ebbs and flows and moves differently than the rest of the country.»

For example, these companies pay for information like, «Families in the Phoenix area are 20 % more likely than the rest of the country to shop for laundry detergent at a super center than at a traditional grocery store.»

Despite this, in recent years, New York has suffered higher job losses than the rest of the country, after lagging in job creation for decades.

You might expect to pay higher premiums in Texas than the rest of the country, but keep in mind that is just an estimate.

At the same time, South Floridians have contended with a higher cost of living than the rest of the country, said economist William B. Stronge, an FAU professor emeritus.

The regional composition of growth has been quite divergent, with the resource - intensive states of Western Australia and Queensland growing much more strongly than the rest of the country (for more detail, see «Box B: Divergences in Regional Performance»).

According to LifeWay Research president Ed Stetzer, new research shows that New Englanders «are less responsive [to evangelism than the rest of the country], but maybe more responsive than you think.»

An analysis of the most recent USDA Census of Agriculture determined that direct market farm sales grew three times as fast in Appalachia as compared to the rest of the country and that Appalachian consumers spend more per capita on direct farms sales than the rest of the country.

«The one thing I learned serving on the platform committee is that the Republican Party is a little different in New York than the rest of the country,» Dadey said.

«Just as Middle England swung more firmly away from John Major and towards Tony Blair than the rest of the country, so there seems every chance that it will swing more heavily away from Gordon Brown.

We find that Conservative support is holding up better in its key marginal seats than the rest of the country, and also that the Liberal Democrats are recovering strongly, albeit from a low base, in the seats they are defending.

In 2015 Labour performed comparatively better in London than the rest of the country.

Stuart Kerachsky, head of the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, calls Shanghai «an educational mecca» that is also much wealthier than the rest of the country.

The researchers discovered that men are more adversely impacted by deprivation and the southeast of England is less deprived than the rest of the country — with the five most deprived districts all in the north of England.

In fact, the South has significantly higher rates of obesity than the rest of the country, according to the 2007 «F Is for Fat» report by Trust for Americans Health, a nonprofit, nonpartisan health advocacy group.

Midwest style is usually a little more relaxed than the rest of the country, but I still enjoy dressing up when everything is so festive over the next few months.

If you ask me, it's never too early for white jeans, especially those of us in the south, since warm temps hit us even sooner than the rest of the country.

Guy: the NY critics were generally much harsher on the film than the rest of the country — I recall a few people questioning if it had some obtuse connection to 9/11

Only the South has done much to bridge racial differences between black and white high - school students, allowing the region to pride itself today on having no worse a record than the rest of the country (see Figure 1).

«Georgia, even more so than the rest of the country, follows that pattern.»

This is because London has traditionally benefited from more funding per pupil than the rest of the country, which under the new proposals will be «carved up more equally».

While the median household income of $ 61,757 came in slightly higher than the rest of the country at $ 57,617.

Pennsylvania consumers have eighteen percent less debt than the rest of the country.

Averaged over an entire year, Alaska gets 10 - 17 minutes more daylight per day than the rest of the country.

A little more rustic than the rest of the country, Palawan is spectacular.

The Bolaven Plateau is famous for being the coffee region of Laos since it has a higher elevation and cooler climate than the rest of the country.

Costa Rica's Caribbean coast has such a different vibe than the rest of the country, with a reggae feel and Pura Vida vibe all its own.

The province is the sunniest and driest in Costa Rica, with a considerably shorter rainy season than the rest of the country.

For both utility - scale solar PV and solar thermal, California has more capacity than the rest of the country combined, with 52 % and 73 % of the nation's total, respectively.

California has always had a special waiver from the EPA allowing them to impose higher emissions standards than the rest of the country on any cars sold in - state.

If Toronto can be duped into choosing the easy and expensive path by consultants that have mountains of their own data suggesting otherwise than the rest of the country is in deep trouble.