Example sentences of "than [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were more than that number tied up in the harbour , although most of these were smaller , and all traders . |
| 2 | If you want a building or equipment for less than that number of years , it 's best to rent . |
| 3 | Although well-made clubs ought to last a lifetime , I have already owned 16 different sets and tried more than that number in a futile search for The Touch . |
| 4 | If more than that number is required , requests must be supported by good reasons , and will require to be counter-signed by C Will , G Lomas or R Pankhurst . |
| 5 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 6 | This , together with the addition of six big new unnamed customers and a lower than usual number of client losses , led to an 11% rise in turnover to £4.5m from the bureau and facilities management services division . |
| 7 | However , unscandalised as the people professed to be , a larger than usual number were prepared to buy the Sunday Times . |
| 8 | Bachet said that he had checked this for more than 300 numbers but did not know how to prove it . |
| 9 | But it is possible that more or less than this number may develop . |
| 10 | Of greater significance than this number count however , are the particular descriptions and character traits of those male and female characters who do appear . |
| 11 | There was a relationship between the amount of training undertaken and allocation of a staff member 's time , so that all of the 27 authorities who employed specifically named training officers engaged in a higher than average number of training programmes . |
| 12 | If so , imagine the suffering of those poor souls subject to hay fever , of whom there seemed to be a perversely larger than average number among our guests . |
| 13 | One way of conceiving of this is that in any period there are in some islands a greater than average number of demanders , and in others a smaller number than average . |
| 14 | On Saturday officers were kept busy with a higher than average number of shoplifting incidents in the town centre . |
| 15 | The ethnic variety of the USSR was in fact still greater than these numbers implied . |
| 16 | The evidence for this is that some scarps cut across several sizeable craters , whereas others are cut by sizeable craters , indicating that there are scarps which are older than appreciable numbers of sizeable craters , whereas others are much younger . |
| 17 | Even here the quality of that achievement remains more important than sheer numbers . |
| 18 | While always concerned to get his numbers right , his interest is in the memorable moment more than impressive numbers — he regards many statisticians as self-important nit-pickers . |
| 19 | Accountability or value for money is not the only reason for knowing what government is doing and having a say in it , but the consumer may have a more direct effect on policy and the producer than any number of democratic arguers . |
| 20 | As a piece of theatrical violence , a 100lb bomb blast in the heart of the City of London , 23 hours after the polling stations had closed , was a triumph of the terrorist 's craft — more eloquent a comment on the election than any number of Sinn Féin leaflets . |
| 21 | Cutting the price of essentials will do far more to help the people who are struggling than any number of £100 reductions on clothes that are out of reach for most of us . |
| 22 | But in cash-starved rural communities , where every extra pound of meat is a godsend , it can do more to win the active support of local people than any number of anti-poaching patrols . |
| 23 | A wide range of responses to this question was noted , and most of these involved combinations of two errors , i.e. not knowing the number of centimetres in a metre , and holding the view that " any number of millimetres is smaller than any number of centimetres " . |
| 24 | bigger than any number you can possibly think of , to plus infinity , with the tiniest change in X. That you could imagine . |
| 25 | There are fifty five different numbers at the moment on the football pools , and if people made an investigation of the frequency with which certain matches were selected , then they 'd find that certain numbers were selected far more frequently and others selected far less frequently than other numbers . |
| 26 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |