Example sentences of "[adv] than [art] [adj] number " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 2 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 3 | ‘ If we have to cut , we will make a large number of small cuts , rather than a small number of large cuts . |
| 4 | One has only to envisage circumstances in which all those upon whose territory strategic arms are stationed are required to come to the negotiating table to consider such a proposition to realise how much more difficult it would be if all , rather than a limited number , were participating . |
| 5 | Once the adult is much larger than a sperm cell , it pays some individuals to produce a small number of large gametes , rather than a large number of small ones , because a large gamete ( after fusing with a small one ) has a much better chance of surviving to become an adult . |
| 6 | Retaining large numbers of small farms rather than a lesser number of large farms is usually considered beneficial in conservation terms ; both the Countryside Commission arid the Nature Conservancy Council have used this argument . |
| 7 | Under it , the cost of software is tied to the number of users who actually use the software rather than an arbitrary number of perceived users . |
| 8 | However , the money was used ( rather typically for the English universities of this period ) to help finance an additional chair of Arabic rather than an increased number of students . |
| 9 | This shows the importance of timing of births in year-to-year marital fertility change rather than the final number . |
| 10 | What is most important is how classes are taught and how a school manages its teaching staff , rather than the actual number employed or the number of pupils per class . |
| 11 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 12 | Five cases of the rare tumour retinoblastoma had been found in these children , 20 times more than the usual number . |