Example sentences of "than the total [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bank loans and , particularly , credit cards may account for a much greater volume of spending than the total debt outstanding on them might suggest . |
| 2 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 3 | In the first case , profits depend on having annual incomes which exceed annual out goings ; in the second , the price must be greater than the total cost of production inputs ( see Ambrose , 1986 : 4 ) . |
| 4 | For the product to be viable this line must have a steeper slope than the total cost line and intersect it at some point . |
| 5 | The world still spends more than $1,000 billion per year on arms — more than the total income of one half of the world 's population . |
| 6 | The baselines may amount to no more than the total number of times each behaviour is noticed in a one hour session every day for a week . |
| 7 | Figure 7.9 shows the membership figures issued in 1988 by the main teaching unions ; the total membership of all eight is greater than the total number of teachers ( Education Guardian , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If elimination of lead in petrol could reduce blood levels by half — as the study assumed — it would reduce average blood pressure levels by 1 to 2 points , thereby meaning that 12,000 fewer people would need treatment for hypertension annually , there would be 6,000 to 12,000 fewer heart attacks , and up to 2,655 lives would be saved — more than the total number of fatalities on the nation 's roads each year . |
| 10 | Before the trade took off I bought a small font ( of the splashing rather than the total immersion variety ) for 20 crisp oncers ; now you 'd need to check your savings before indulging in a piece of granite . |
| 11 | Like many young children her granddaughter tends to see detail rather than the total picture . |
| 12 | The fact that more sites have been identified as time passes shows that archaeological distribution maps only depict the activities of individual archaeologists or field societies up to any particular date , rather than the total picture of deserted medieval villages ! |
| 13 | ‘ In one cubic centimetre of empty space the amount of energy is much greater than the total amount of energy of all matter in the known universe . ’ |
| 14 | If overall losses are estimated at 1000 kg per ha per year , then the 20–25 million ha under shifting cultivation or permanent conversion from forest to other uses , generate more than the total nitrogen delivered by rivers to the oceans . |
| 15 | After joining the lining widths , trim the sides so that the total width is 10 cm ( 4 in ) less than the total width of valance . |
| 16 | In this form the mixture exhibits a property known as synergism whereby the performance is better than the total effect of each working alone . |
| 17 | Its long-term purpose is none other than the total control of all human minds throughout the galaxy . ’ |
| 18 | A higher proportion of the temporary than the total labour force are women ( 54 per cent compared to 41 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Clearly , such resources will always be less than the total need for management development , so hard decisions about selective investment will continue to be required . |
| 20 | A Roman citizen often owned slaves who worked his land growing wheat ; a feudal lord would seize the surplus wheat grown by the serf on the lands of medieval Europe ; the early capitalist farmers began to employ landless labourers to do their manual work for a wage which was less than the total value of the product which they created . |
| 21 | The only constraint on attempts to acquire a larger budget is that it would cost more than the total value to the politicians of the service , the value of additional output being zero . |
| 22 | This means that in a situation where saving exceeds investment , so that aggregate demand is less than the total value of production , firms will reduce output and lay off workers . |
| 23 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 24 | Nothing is more unsavoury in all these transactions than the total abandonment of Duke Robert to his fate . |
| 25 | Most finance texts would suggest that purchasers of assets via the financial markets are entering a fair game in that the market will price assets according to expectations of future cash flows incorporating some risk discount ( albeit one likely to reflect systematic risk , ie after taking the opportunity for portfolio diversification into account , rather than the total variance of the returns ) . |
| 26 | It was conceded that had any individual shareholder held a sufficient block to give him ‘ control ’ of the company then he might have been entitled to a higher price than the total market value of his shares , since he would then have been selling an item of property — control — additional to his shares . |