Example sentences of "[noun pl] greater than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 2 | We have had wars greater than the wars against Napoleon , fought with more terrible weapons and less mercy , and involving most of the nations of the globe . |
| 3 | Why then is the rate of circumcision up to six times greater than the incidence of preputial pathology ? |
| 4 | Professor John Brewer has recently pointed out that the capital value of the fleet at the end of the eighteenth century was perhaps five times greater than the £402,651 at which the West Riding woollen manufacture was valued in 1801 . |
| 5 | The odds against a " yes " answer for questions like Question 1 are many billions of times greater than the number of atoms in the universe . |
| 6 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 7 | In his book he played with various figures — unemployment equal to vacancies , vacancies greater than the number of unemployed — and settled for 3% unemployment ( 1% frictional , 1% seasonal and 1% for the unavoidable variations in foreign demand for British goods ) . |