Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | House closings in 1992 amounted to 695 units , marginally lower than the number in 1991 . |
| 2 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 3 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 4 | Before the Minister gives us , once again , the sterile old argument about the number of empty council properties , I point out that the number of empty council properties is far fewer than the number of empty properties owned by the Government . |
| 5 | If you want to en try and ensure that you 're going to have a self sustained community , one hundred percent , you make sure that presumably you 've got a show case cinema with fifteen screens there , er a B and Q , erm a whole range of of facilities that nobody ever needs leave , erm erm erm er that new settlement , the reality of the real world of course is that all settlements to a greater or lesser degree , er have a relationship with other er larger scale settlements , now then let's look at the new settlement , fourteen hundred dwellings , we estimate that that is going to be of the order of around three thousand three hundred people , now that is sizeable , it is not small , it is larger than a number of the small market towns er in North Yorkshire , like Boroughbridge , Settle , it is a significant development erm erm and within it erm there will be a requirement er be a requirement for a a a primary school , it justifies that . |
| 6 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 7 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 8 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 9 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 10 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 11 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 12 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 13 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
| 14 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |
| 15 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 16 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 17 | But with four nuclear powers , six pairs could quarrel , while five powers provided ten possible pairs and so on , the likelihood of war increasing faster than the number of nuclear players . |
| 18 | The Tory , David Harris , held the seat by a mere 1,645 votes — less than the number of postal and proxy votes ( 3,355 ) . |
| 19 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 20 | When the number that we 're sharing out when that 's less than the number of people . |
| 21 | Secondly , if there is a rotation axis relating three or more CO ligands , the number of bands will be less than the number of ligands because some modes will be degenerate . |
| 22 | spaces are one less than the number of posts . |
| 23 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
| 24 | A comment taken from a mathematics survey observes that too many children have a ‘ fragile ’ grasp of decimals , some 33% of 11 year olds considering that a number of 3 decimal places was invariably smaller than a number with 2 decimal places regardless of the digits involved . |
| 25 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 26 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 27 | Selby et al isolated an excess of44×10 6 mononuclear cells/g UC mucosa , or 440000 per 10 mg biopsy , so both these estimates are considerably smaller than the number of lymphocytes studied with each biopsy ( 2.56×10 6 ) . |
| 28 | Since about 35% of contacts at night are dealt with by telephone the amount of disturbance for individual doctors is considerably higher than the number of claims , and the stress created by night work is out of proportion with the small number of contacts with patients . |
| 29 | Extensively renovated in 1986 , it remains a Leith landmark and the last remaining example of a windmill tower in this area , other than a number of ‘ doocots ’ still dotted around the Lothians and barely recognisable as windmill towers of the past . |
| 30 | 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 . |