Example sentences of "[det] 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 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 .
3 The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral .
4 All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! !
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ?
9 Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars .
10 The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived .
11 The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month .
16 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 ) .
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