Example sentences of "than [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agricultural production was also affected by nationwide strikes in January and February 1990 by more than 65,000 plantation workers demanding a monthly wage scheme . |
| 2 | For your £6 subscription per annum , you get a free bus timetable giving you the times of at least three buses that visit no less than eight M/SV clubs . |
| 3 | Pearson made no fewer than eight quota films in one year at Julius Hagen 's Twickenham Studios , where one small stage was occupied around the clock , and pictures that had been scripted in a fortnight were filmed in another two weeks . |
| 4 | But by using an auxiliary collecting tank I am able to increase the capacity by more than eight time , thereby avoiding having the empty the vac so frequently . |
| 5 | It has its roots in northern Europe , particularly Denmark , where more than 120 co-housing projects have been built since 1972 . |
| 6 | Valerius Geist , a well-respected mountain sheep biologist , once found a mountain goat that had been killed by another and had no less than 32 horn punctures , including several injuries to the lungs and heart . |
| 7 | In other moves , the Chancellor increased by a fifth the duty charged on free fuel supplied to company car users for private use and abolished the 50 per cent discount on this for drivers doing more than 18,000 business miles a year . |
| 8 | According to official army estimates on July 3 more than 500 LTTE rebels had been killed , 200 in the course of a single assault , since the start of the operation . |
| 9 | The company claims that since first shipment in June 1991 , it has sold more than 500 development and 100,000 run-time licences , primarily to large corporate customers . |
| 10 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 11 | Pontypool .. 34 Swansea ..... 6 AT 37 , and with more than 500 club games , 41 caps , and three British Lions tours behind him , Graham Price should be basking in the glory of one of Welsh rugby 's greatest careers . |
| 12 | In the first year of the programme , more than 500 campesino leaders were murdered . |
| 13 | In the last 6 months , it 's suffered more than 500 job losses . |
| 14 | Biddulph 's three volumes include virtually all his Schumann , omitting the ‘ Vogel als Prophet ’ from Waldszenen ( recorded 1948 ) and offering unusually , the 1927 rather than 1934 Concerto . |
| 15 | Less than 70 shopping days to Christmas . |
| 16 | More than 70 pen functions are supported allowing application developers to create exciting new pen applications . |
| 17 | SoftBench Framework is designed to provide user interface and tool communication services for the open integration of more than 70 software development tools . |
| 18 | This reveals that more than 70 investment schemes vet companies on ethical and/or environmental grounds . |
| 19 | Yet he boasts of having already arranged more than 70 kidney transplants , and maintaining a list of 50 donors awaiting their turn . |
| 20 | More than 7,000 rail jobs have been lost this year and 20,000 are under threat , according to the union , which last organised a series of one-day strikes , over pay , in 1989 . |
| 21 | According to government sources more than 180 LTTE fighters and 30 soldiers died during the operation . |
| 22 | Local authority house building was suitably stimulated and in 1948 more than 190,000 council houses were completed ( compared with the previous highest total of 121,000 in 1939 ) . |
| 23 | Intermediate level in-rack , sprinklers are required to operate at not less than 2 bar when the required assumed numbers are operating ; in addition , ceiling level protection will be required at the reduced rate of 7.5 mm/m over an area of operation of 260 m2 . |
| 24 | The fact that the 1991 figure was more than 2 percentage points higher than this figure was attributed to higher personnel costs and to contracts scheduled to be paid during fiscal 1991 . |
| 25 | The four key criteria on economic convergence were ( i ) that inflation should be no more than 1.5 per cent above the average of the three best-performing member countries ; ( ii ) that the government deficit should not exceed 3 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) and the public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) that the currency should have remained within the 2.25 per cent fluctuation margins in the European Monetary System for at least two years ; and ( iv ) that interest rates should not be more than 2 percentage points above the three best-performing states over the previous 12 months . |
| 26 | There was no evidence of more than 2 emission from the shell and no more than 1 from the central source . |
| 27 | From Sounion comes a splendidly illuminating decree of the demesmen , which reads : ‘ It seemed good to the men of Sounion : since Leukios has given the demesmen land to build an agora , three men are to be chosen straight away to measure an area not less than 2 plethra by 1 , so that there shall be broad space for the men of Sounion to agorazein ’ … ( the last word is untranslatable : ‘ carry on all the activities usual in an agora ’ is accurate but too prosaic ; there is also the sense of ‘ promenading oneself : Syll. 925 ) . |
| 28 | At the end of December 1990 there were estimated to be more than 92,000 neighbourhood watch schemes in England and Wales , covering nearly 5 million households . |
| 29 | Sun exposure of more than 50,000 lifetime hours also increased the risk of being excessively wrinkled by 3.1 times . |
| 30 | DEC , he adds , has confirmed that more than 800 Alpha AXP seed systems are out with ISVs ( we heard 500 elsewhere ) and that 2,500 systems , including at least 100 Cobra platforms , will be in the field by the end of the year . |