Example sentences of "than [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , unscandalised as the people professed to be , a larger than usual number were prepared to buy the Sunday Times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Saturday officers were kept busy with a higher than average number of shoplifting incidents in the town centre . |