adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheap
▪ Carriage by road was expensive but by water it was comparatively cheap.
▪ Along with good light and utilitarian spaces, Chelsea offers comparatively cheap real estate.
▪ The appeal of onshore drilling is its comparatively cheap.
▪ At least this revolution was genuine because the comparatively cheap micro-chip computers made possible and affordable a computerised society.
▪ With the Taunton cast, it remained a comparatively cheap show.
▪ Thirty should be enough now, particularly if the navy can bring itself to build some comparatively cheap diesel submarines as well.
▪ But it is quite possible that the programme could go ahead at some point, and it would be comparatively cheap.
▪ And its panoramic views come comparatively cheap.
easy
▪ This will be difficult to carry out on barnacles, but comparatively easy for mussels, limpets or other snails.
▪ It is comparatively easy to put it down intellectually.
▪ For any one ecological group, such as the dinosaurs, it is comparatively easy to find a possible cause.
▪ In such circumstances they may find it comparatively easy to become, or to be seen as, innovators.
▪ If there are some areas where anti-realism is comparatively easy to accept, well and good.
▪ Other campaign groups have it comparatively easy.
▪ The fish snaps at these enticingly offered morsels and finds that it is comparatively easy to bite one off.
▪ Their outward journey was comparatively easy.
high
▪ That is due not just to its comparatively high transport costs but to its low density.
▪ Current direct-injection diesels are comparatively high on particulate output, though specific fuel consumption is good.
large
▪ Fisher Row, Oxford Urban historians who deal with comparatively large populations limit the scale of their enquiries to aggregative studies.
▪ Exactly a week later, she unexpectedly came into a comparatively large sum for those days.
▪ However, you should notice, from column 5, that retail banks hold comparatively large quantities of treasury and commercial bills.
▪ The comparatively large sums involved conferred on all these agencies a substantial power of patronage over recipient institutions.
▪ In Gallia Belgica there are a comparatively large number of small defended sites situated at intervals along main roads.
▪ The belt surrounds Jupiter and contains ions and electrons with comparatively large energies of motion.
late
▪ Coinage was invented only comparatively late in human history.
▪ An important feature of these examples of developing research programmes is the comparatively late stage at which observational testing becomes relevant.
little
▪ This is not surprising because there is still comparatively little available evidence from which such explanations can be derived.
▪ What people do in retirement is equally important, yet we know comparatively little about this potentially lengthy and possibly isolated experience.
▪ With the aid of a computer, concordances of many kinds can be made with comparatively little difficulty.
▪ Yet all this led to comparatively little public outcry.
low
▪ Derived from satellite imagery at comparatively low resolution, predicted yields for different crops in different nation states become of commercial value.
▪ They saw in educational television the opportunity to get a jump start on quality education at comparatively low cost.
▪ These subjects had comparatively low positive titres in 1978 and may have been false positives.
▪ This provides a solid foundation for their marriage, which contributes to the comparatively low divorce rate in the religious community.
▪ Ronald Reagan's stock of capital as he began his presidency was comparatively low, as Table l shows.
▪ Luminescence is rarely more than 1% efficient and thus of comparatively low intensity.
▪ Since then, Bishop has maintained a comparatively low profile.
▪ These sources yield particles which initially have comparatively low energies of motion.
minor
▪ Clearly, if it is perceived as of comparatively minor concern, few countries would risk making a military riposte.
modest
▪ While others had comparatively modest ambitions, her heart was set on becoming a star.
▪ Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards.
new
▪ Only the music centre and the television set were comparatively new.
▪ Whilst still a comparatively new system of management those who practised it were very pleased with the results.
▪ If the project is a success, other patients will benefit from a surprising application of a comparatively new technology.
▪ A comparatively new variety, Bandit, also impressed with yielding ability.
▪ So the concept of retirement is still comparatively new, particularly amongst the poor.
▪ The Building Notice procedure is a comparatively new system and does not require the submission of any detailed plans.
▪ I admired the main door of the Catedral Nueva - comparatively new, that is, for it was started in 1513.
poor
▪ By comparison with this vitality, Chichester made a comparatively poor showing.
▪ In addition, work-inhibited students had comparatively poor self-esteem as it relates to family.
▪ People who were comparatively poor would come to Vinoba and offer all their land.
▪ In all countries, children of high birth order have comparatively poor survival chances.
▪ The counts also suggest that most Sussex woods have comparatively poor populations of many breeding summer visitors.
rare
▪ Deaths before the age of 65, so-called premature deaths, are comparatively rare.
▪ With comparatively rare and usually eccentric exceptions, the rich have been opposed.
▪ Among the mammals they are comparatively rare.
▪ A comparatively rare plant, Acorus is propagated with difficulty but it is a very decorative plant when used in aquariums.
▪ This is probably a comparatively rare occurrence for small mammals, but it certainly does occur.
▪ But, once again, these complications are comparatively rare, and, these days, fairly easy to treat.
▪ In the home, by contrast, communications other than voice telephones, are unfamiliar and comparatively rare.
▪ Policy analysis needs to be concerned with a flow of interrelated policies, with abrupt changes of direction a comparatively rare occurrence.
recent
▪ But these bodies are of comparatively recent origin.
▪ Another comparatively recent development is computer technology.
▪ Study and research into pre-Romanesque architecture is still comparatively recent and more is being found out each decade.
▪ Background and History Compacts are a comparatively recent phenomenon.
▪ Many in Britain today believe it to be a comparatively recent development, a product of the last hundred years.
▪ The treatment of rhythmical hierarchy is based on the comparatively recent theory of metrical phonology.
▪ The old lane was in use down to comparatively recent times as a through road from Northampton to Banbury.
▪ Another small library of comparatively recent date is the one in the sitting room of the Eventide Homes in Bowmore.
short
▪ As a result, we feel very tired after a comparatively short time.
▪ A juvenile troupe, 1917 Despite the fact that the Ballroom shows had comparatively short runs, every production was spectacular.
▪ For a change, this was a comparatively short flight.
▪ A week or two spent in preparation is really a comparatively short time to plan the necessary changes.
▪ Therefore this apparent reduction in their rate of occurrence is a reflection of the comparatively shorter period of monitoring during the procedure.
▪ You can freeze it, but it will start to go rancid after a comparatively short storage period of three months.
▪ Large thickset birds, with necks relatively longer than most ducks, and legs comparatively short.
▪ This is a comparatively short section, in a beautiful setting, of an original aqueduct 25 miles long.
simple
▪ In such patients, this type of treatment may be regarded as being quick, safe, comparatively simple, and inexpensive.
▪ But even the comparatively simple task of head-counting is fraught with difficulties.
▪ The myth that it is comparatively simple and also deeply desirable to have it off in the back seat.
▪ The significance of these comparatively simple provisions on open enrolment should not be overlooked.
▪ But the trauma of even comparatively simple surgery can cause some people to experience short-term problems with memory and logical thought.
▪ We already know the basic physical laws that govern the activity of the brain, and they are comparatively simple.
▪ Because of this our extremely complex mechanisms become comparatively simple to organize.
▪ And yet comparatively simple problems remain to be solved.
small
▪ Justices, of course, are accustomed, as part of their day-to-day work, to assessing costs of comparatively small amounts.
▪ Yet the number of professed Sisters who have left is comparatively small.
▪ The population pressures on this comparatively small and beautiful place are probably too great for anyone to solve.
▪ This phenomenon is often regarded as a paradox, although the total amount of resources expended on such rescues is comparatively small.
▪ Now when you think of the comparatively small measurement of a single limb, the inch loss is truly amazing.
▪ The uncertain understatement of X that may arise from this source is comparatively small.
▪ They make up in quality for their comparatively small area.
▪ Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum.
young
▪ These men are comparatively young in the Service.
▪ Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years ... she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman.
▪ There were trees all round the Ezbekiya, most of them comparatively young.
▪ M42 itself is comparatively young, probably not more than 30000 years old.
■ VERB
speak
▪ Just as the tax position of pension funds is straight forward so too, comparatively speaking, is the regulatory framework.
▪ Equities, comparatively speaking, made no money.
▪ I suppose that, comparatively speaking, we Caplans had little to complain of.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The kids were comparatively well-behaved today.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, we feel very tired after a comparatively short time.
▪ For they suggest that more is at stake in the dispute about holism than the comparatively technical notion of reducibility.
▪ Its large population is comparatively well educated.
▪ On A Division, it was comparatively lively.
▪ One encounters a comparatively congenial Schoenberg here.
▪ Trading was comparatively light in both currency and equity markets, but the collapse in confidence seemed widespread.
▪ We're a comparatively wealthy county, but our resources are getting exhausted.