Example sentences of "more than the [adj] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 3 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 8 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 9 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |
| 10 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |