Example sentences of "more than the [adj] number of " in BNC.

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1 Under the Chester scheme , landlords pay £50 to register , but if they fail to do so and their houses contain more than the permitted number of occupants , they face fines of up to £1,000 .
2 The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral .
3 All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! !
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ?
7 Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars .
8 The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block .
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