Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which towns will need more than the average number of ( i ) schools and ( ii ) hospitals and nursing homes ? |
| 2 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
| 3 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Figure 7.9 shows the membership figures issued in 1988 by the main teaching unions ; the total membership of all eight is greater than the total number of teachers ( Education Guardian , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Goodchild ( 1978 ) suggests that the number of derived polygons is more a function of boundary complexity than the actual number of polygons . |
| 10 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 11 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 12 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 15 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 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 ) . |
| 17 | If the number you computed for yourself is higher than the top number for your frame size you are overweight . |
| 18 | These subsequences were usually only one or two words in length , and ( … ) appeared no more reliable as predictors than the large number of incorrect one- and two-word sequences . |
| 19 | Also , it may be worth pointing out that most shareware distributors offer a policy whereby users buying more than a certain number of disks pay less per disk . |
| 20 | This option is chosen automatically when more than a certain number of measurements fall outside a certain tolerance . |
| 21 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 22 | The poll early next year would elect a coalition government made up of all the parties winning more than a minimum number of seats to lead the country to majority rule in the year 2000 . |
| 23 | This program is better than a great number of Commercial drawing packages for children . |
| 24 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 25 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 26 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 27 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 28 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 29 | ‘ If we have to cut , we will make a large number of small cuts , rather than a small number of large cuts . |
| 30 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |