Example sentences of "[det] than [art] number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 7 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 8 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 9 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Tory , David Harris , held the seat by a mere 1,645 votes — less than the number of postal and proxy votes ( 3,355 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When the number that we 're sharing out when that 's less than the number of people . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | spaces are one less than the number of posts . |