Example sentences for: comparable

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  • In religion-soaked colonial New England, pieces of movable type show up frequently during excavations of early sites; they don't show up at all at sites of comparable age in less aggressively pious Virginia.)

  • They're erudite and sophisticated and carry their rituals off with comparable ease.

  • Although the in situ hybridization data suggest low amplitude rhythmicity in these brain regions (including the SCN), we have not detected rhythmic expression in the brain comparable to the high amplitude rhythmicity detected in peripheral tissues.

  • Prehn and West, using 1990 census data, calculated breast cancer incidence rates for aggregations of census block groups matched to Marin County on characteristics associated with higher breast cancer risk (percentage white population, urban status, average parity, median household income, percentage of persons with a college degree, percentage of persons with a working-class occupation, and percentage of households living below the poverty line), and found rates in the matched areas to be comparable with those in Marin County [ 4 ] . In another study using interview-based information, higher breast cancer incidence rates among white women in the SFBA were also fully explained by the distribution of parity, age at first birth, months of breast-feeding, age at menarche, and age at menopause [ 5 ] . Other previous analyses of nationwide variation in breast cancer incidence and mortality found most of it attributable to the distribution of known breast cancer risk factors [ 15 16 ] . It thus seems likely that a substantial part of the excess incidence observed in Marin County is explained by a higher concentration of women with a higher breast cancer risk profile.

  • The study of hypertension in pregnant women found that an at-home blood pressure monitoring system resulted in comparable levels of blood pressure, anxiety, and gestational age of delivery as hospital-based monitoring [ 28 ] .


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