Example sentences of "greater than [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gene which causes its carrier to forgo reproduction in favour of raising relatives will increase in frequency in the population if the number of replicas of the gene in those relatives is greater than the number which would have been present in its own offspring . |
| 2 | The number of TC-LC that adhered to KC was 10-fold greater than the number of TE-LC that bound , implying a role for cadherins in LC-KC interactions . |
| 3 | The number on the register is far greater than the number formerly liable for domestic rates — one reason for the introduction of the new system — and it is correspondingly more difficult to prevent non-registration and evasion . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the number of different sounds ( phonemes ) used in English speech is greater than the number of letters used in handwriting , adding further complexity to the recognition of speech . |
| 5 | ( The surplus could be greater than the number of transferable votes — if , for example , a large proportion of the votes were non-transferable . |
| 6 | The process is one of iteration with a submatrix of p vectors , where p is a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought , and involves the solution at each step of an eigenproblem of order p only . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that we choose p to be a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought . |
| 8 | The number of dwellings in Great Britain in 1981 was 21.2 million , considerably greater than the number of households , estimated as 19.5 million ( Social Trends 17 , 1987 , Table 2.2 ; Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , 1987 , Table 9 ) . |
| 9 | As twenty-three birthdays spread at random over 365 addresses can cause duplication , it is not surprising that no randomizing algorithm can avoid synonyms when packing thousands of records into a set of addresses that is only 10–20 per cent greater than the number of records ! |
| 10 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 11 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
| 12 | ACCORDING to the most recent figures available , the number of people coming to live in Northern Ireland is now greater than the number leaving these shores . |
| 13 | In his book he played with various figures — unemployment equal to vacancies , vacancies greater than the number of unemployed — and settled for 3% unemployment ( 1% frictional , 1% seasonal and 1% for the unavoidable variations in foreign demand for British goods ) . |
| 14 | And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death . |
| 15 | The odds against a " yes " answer for questions like Question 1 are many billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the universe . |
| 16 | It assumes that it is actually the unemployed who are being imprisoned , and , furthermore , is clearly untenable when faced with data which show the numbers unemployed in England and Wales many times greater than the numbers imprisoned . |