a comparatively small number of peoplecomparativelycom‧par‧a‧tive‧ly /kəmˈpærətəvli/ ●○○ adverb 
a comparatively small number of people Comparatively few books have been written on the subject. Crime on the island is comparatively rare. Comparatively speaking, this part of the coast is still unspoiled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The kids were comparatively well-behaved today.
- 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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a comparatively small number of people Comparatively few books have been written on the subject. Crime on the island is comparatively rare. Comparatively speaking, this part of the coast is still unspoiled.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
a comparatively small number of people Comparatively few books have been written on the subject. Crime on the island is comparatively rare. Comparatively speaking, this part of the coast is still unspoiled.· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· Clearly, if it is perceived as of comparatively minor concern, few countries would risk making a military riposte.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
WORD FAMILYnouncomparisoncomparabilitythe comparativeadjectivecomparable ≠ incomparablecomparativeadverbcomparativelycomparablyverbcompare
as compared to something else or to a previous state SYN relatively: a comparatively small number of people Comparatively few books have been written on the subject. Crime on the island is comparatively rare. Comparatively speaking, this part of the coast is still unspoiled.