Example sentences of "[adj] than the [adj] number " in BNC.
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1 | Nominations must be in writing , signed by not fewer than the required number of signatories , and incorporate ( or be accompanied by ) a signed declaration by the nominee that he or she is willing to serve . |
2 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
3 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
6 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
7 | Henry Ratter set up a moodified Quality in Action workshop for a group of 25 heads and LEA officers , many more than the usual number . |
8 | 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 . |
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 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
11 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
12 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |
13 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
14 | Having more than the ideal number can be a problem — it does n't mean that any more will be sold , and the rest will sit on the shelf ‘ doing nothing ’ . |
15 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
18 | When covering an overlap and return Divide the track length , excluding the amount needed to cover the overlap and return , by one less than the proposed number of pleats ( fig. 3b ) . |
19 | If the number you computed for yourself is higher than the top number for your frame size you are overweight . |
20 | 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 ) . |