Example sentences of "[num] [det] than [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There are almost 6,600 workers at the plant , roughly 300 more than at the end of last year , after transfers from East Fishkill , New York .
2 There are now 242 shops , 31 more than at the start of the year .
3 The congress was attended by over 600 delegates representing some 80,000 party members , approximately 20,000 less than at the time of the 20th congress held in February 1991 [ see pp. 38008-09 ] .
4 Centromeres are portions of the DNA that hold the two halves of a divided chromosome together , and it is reasonable to suppose that the centromeres of a given species would be more like one another than like the centromeres of another species .
5 The total number attending was only nine less than on the question of membership of the European Community seventeen years earlier , and forty more than had voted on the Government of Ireland bill in 1893 .
6 Veloso said that 5,600,000 people were now displaced or affected by the emergency , 1,000,000 more than at the time of the April appeal .
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