fair comparison

collocation in English

meaningsoffairandcomparison

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fair
adjective
uk
/feər/us
/fer/
treating someone in a way that is right or reasonable, or treating a group of people equally and not allowing personal opinions to influence ...
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comparison
noun[C or U]
uk
/kəmˈpær.ɪ.sən/us
/kəmˈper.ɪ.sən/
the act of comparing two or more people ...
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(Definition offairandcomparisonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffair comparison

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To some extent, the difference between the types of antigen used makes afaircomparisonbetween results difficult.
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Most of the farmers (32 of the 35) felt that their trial was afaircomparisonof the varieties.
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To be able to make afaircomparison, the mean host lifespan was kept constant at 10 years in all scenarios.
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Again the same servo gains were used for afaircomparisonand a large update rate was used for fast parameter convergence.
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In this way, afaircomparisoncan be carried out.
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However, since punctuation is excluded in all evaluation scores, this nevertheless seems like afaircomparison.
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The category 'appositive' is not taken into account forfaircomparison.
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This, however, was not an entirelyfaircomparisonbecause of the differences in the tag-sets in use by the taggers.
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Although the implementations dictate that separate platforms must be used, we have to question whether this setup provides afaircomparisonfor all implementations.
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However, outcome estimates may also vary, and afaircomparisonrequires that even patient and disease or treatment characteristics should be taken into account in effectiveness estimates.
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However, so as to adapt these assorted proposals into a uniform framework and provide afaircomparison of their results, a large amount of underlying conceptual work was also required.
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Since the "reuse functoids" optimization (discussed in the following subsection) requires intrusive reference counts, we turned off that optimization for both of these runs, to have afaircomparison.
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Therefore, afaircomparisonis between optimal correction of a standard method, such as one of those given in the previous section, and optimal correction of an arbitrary method.
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In normal times that would be afaircomparison, but in the interim quite a lot has happened.
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I think that is afaircomparisonand a fair argument.
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The headline rate of inflation is not afaircomparisonfor wages.
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I do not know that that is afaircomparison.
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Many people compare the public service with the private sector, but that is not afaircomparison.
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It is incredibly difficult to make afaircomparisonbetween even two submarines that have been chosen forfaircomparison.
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If we are to put forward afaircomparisonthis afternoon, we should just look at what is happening to other railways.
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