Example sentences of "[num] [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its first two blast furnaces employing 50 men were upgraded within four years to employ 300 more than the population of the whole parish . |
| 2 | David Sole extends his record as Scotland 's captain to 22 matches , three more than the figure set by British Lion Ian McLauchlan . |
| 3 | After 21 days growth , xenografts treated with a histamine concentration of 1 mgkg - 1 had significantly raised mean cross sectional areas ( 2.2 greater than the control , p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 4 | The Home Office says that there are currently 351 staff working at Long Lartin ; 5 more than the level agreed upon with the Prison Officers Association back in may of last year . |
| 5 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 6 | Withdrawals were down to £6.42 billion from £7.21 billion in the 1990–91 tax year and were £2.9 billion lower than the peak withdrawal year of 1989–90 . |
| 7 | Crawford , who had a bad second lap , lost 76 marks , 50 more than the winner former champion Jordi Tarres . |
| 8 | On 16 April the House Budget Committee reported out a budget resolution that incorporated $15.8 billion in cuts — $20 billion less than the administration had requested — and the battle was now joined for the votes of those who could make or break the president 's programme , the Gypsy Moths and the Boll Weevils . |
| 9 | More than 13,000 people turned up to watch , which is 10,000 more than the standard of play merited and the stadium had all the atmosphere of a crypt — a sad pass for a fixture which used to crackle with excitement and produce play of fire and skill . |
| 10 | By 1958 more than a quarter of consumers had electric water heating ( compared with an eighth on nationalisation ) and water heaters accounted for about a quarter of all domestic electricity sales . |
| 11 | This is £9 billion more than the Government forecast only six months ago . |
| 12 | The public sector repaid £3,834 million last month , almost £3 billion more than the City had expected and , after crediting privatisation proceeds of £6.3 billion , the shortfall in government revenue for the first ten months of the current financial year actually fell back to £21.6 billion at the end of January . |
| 13 | The method is to select at least two comparison stars , one brighter than the variable and the other fainter . |
| 14 | In the dressage she lost only 25 points , 13 fewer than the runner-up . |
| 15 | He seemed to play that first nine better than the back nine every day . |
| 16 | Shakespeare 's The Winter 's Tale , for example , was revived in 1623 more than a decade after its first appearance . |
| 17 | Urgent demand for which I totally agree for millions more than the money is available er , as long as all the council says this is our priority of course you can have it . |
| 18 | Dutch farms produce 84 million tons of manure a year , 13 millions more than the land can absorb . |
| 19 | And Edwards ' ten-try haul is only one less than the Rugby League record set by George West for Hull KR against Brookland in 1905 . |
| 20 | spaces are one less than the number of posts . |
| 21 | A waterfall is a little more elaborate and involves two pools , one higher than the other . |
| 22 | The only exception to this is that no one other than a state government or the Federal Government may operate a television or radio station without the approval of the president . |
| 23 | Such surety covenant is of value to no one other than the owner for the time being of the reversion … |
| 24 | 664 more than a shadow of the influence in southern England which had been Eadwine 's or Oswald 's . |
| 25 | That 's around 40 more than the prison can comfortably accommodate . |
| 26 | By 1982 less than a quarter of the area had revegetated ; the remainder is bare peat , clays or exposed shale and rock from which the peat cover has been burnt off . |
| 27 | In 1901 more than a quarter of all employed males in North Shields worked in and around the port and there were nearly 2000 seamen and 600 dockers and coal heavers resident in the town . |
| 28 | Pleased you raised that , Councillor , 'cos we 're still two million short than the government assessment within the S S A. |
| 29 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
| 30 | An alternative scheme for a ‘ brown-field site , costing £16 million — £9 million less than the capital cost for the favoured project — has been lightly dismissed . |