Example sentences of "than [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 2 | Many in the area share his view that far more jobs in tourism , aquaculture and farming are at risk , however slightly , than the number goldmining would create . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , wage costs , maintenance bills and interest charges grew more rapidly than the number of passengers . |
| 4 | But with four nuclear powers , six pairs could quarrel , while five powers provided ten possible pairs and so on , the likelihood of war increasing faster than the number of nuclear players . |
| 5 | A gene which causes its carrier to forgo reproduction in favour of raising relatives will increase in frequency in the population if the number of replicas of the gene in those relatives is greater than the number which would have been present in its own offspring . |
| 6 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 7 | Because of the need to assign British forces to this and to European policing and disaster roles ( on top of their present commitments ) , more general purpose infantry battalions will be required than the number currently planned by the Conservative Government . |
| 8 | Whatever the urgency , setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid . |
| 9 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 10 | Some skins went further than the number one crop and had a ‘ dark shadow ’ , but at this time they were never bald . |
| 11 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 12 | He pointed out that Village school 's roll of nearly 20 pupils was considerably larger than the number given by the Council 's policy document as the minimum desirable size , and moved that the school remain open . |
| 13 | In two constituencies , Vale of Glamorgan and Bristol North West , the Tory majority was less than the number of expat voters . |
| 14 | The Tory , David Harris , held the seat by a mere 1,645 votes — less than the number of postal and proxy votes ( 3,355 ) . |
| 15 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 16 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 17 | However , a change to the government road tax guidelines , which were now based on horsepower rather than the number of wheels , made the cost of vehicle registration prohibitive . |
| 18 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 19 | The gradual replacement on ocean routes of sail by steam increased the volume of traffic faster than the number of ships ; steamships could make more journeys in the same time . |
| 20 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 21 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 22 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 23 | The number of TC-LC that adhered to KC was 10-fold greater than the number of TE-LC that bound , implying a role for cadherins in LC-KC interactions . |
| 24 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 25 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
| 26 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 27 | The amount of tar in cigarettes is also important but less so than the number smoked or duration of smoking . |
| 28 | The number on the register is far greater than the number formerly liable for domestic rates — one reason for the introduction of the new system — and it is correspondingly more difficult to prevent non-registration and evasion . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the number of different sounds ( phonemes ) used in English speech is greater than the number of letters used in handwriting , adding further complexity to the recognition of speech . |
| 30 | To do so , however , the conversion rate had to be given to the pupils in a more convenient form than the number of foreign money units to the pound and pupils did not necessarily learn to apply the arithmetic algorithm to conversions . |