How to Use "comparable" with Example Sentences

1. The barge used one-tenth as much water as a comparable field farm .
2. Roland berger , a consultancy , reckons the comparable figure was only 8 % in the philippines and 1 % in mexico .
3. The world health organisation , america 's centres for disease control and the canadian public health association created a new surveillance system to gather comparable data on tobacco use around the world .
4. Because the indicators used in the two indices were slightly different , we calculated our index from scratch using comparable data ( though we used a proxy for educational attainment ) .
5. Microsoft is not yet translating its search traffic - that 30 percent share in the united states , including the yahoo partnership - into comparable ad dollars .