Example sentences of "[num] [det] [conj] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The toll of serious accidents among young people in Darlington last year was 14 , three more than the previous year . |
| 2 | But in only 42 of these is the Tory majority less than 4,000 ( there are 11 more where the main challenger is a Liberal Democrat ) . |
| 3 | The cost of the system is already £1.8 billion less than the original estimate announced in the House in 1982 . |
| 4 | By the end of Elizabeth 's reign its population had risen to 11,500 , and though this was 2,500 less than the total number of inhabitants 200 years earlier , York had climbed back from sixth to third position amongst England 's provincial cities . |
| 5 | No one can really say just where Palma Nova stops and Magalluf begins , they just sort of merge into one another and the sandy beach runs the length of both resorts . |
| 6 | My own introduction to the world of stand-up involved performing at benefit gigs in the upstairs room of a pub in Exeter to an audience that shouted at one another until the local anarchist punk band came on . |
| 7 | Once , he piled 66 milk crates on his head — 42 more than the previous record . |
| 8 | When covering an overlap and return Divide the track length , excluding the amount needed to cover the overlap and return , by one less than the proposed number of pleats ( fig. 3b ) . |
| 9 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 10 | On April 6 the new 140-member People 's Assembly elected by 96 votes to 35 ( two more than the required minimum two-thirds of the Assembly ) Sali Berisha , president of the Democratic Party ( DP ) as his successor . |
| 11 | The known number of HIV positive cases was 11,218 at the end of September , 424 more than the cumulative total at the end of the previous quarter . |