Example sentences of "than [adv] [art] number [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , there 's a lot more to consider than just the number of columns .
2 Unemployment has fallen by 70 per cent since the mid-eighties in Telford but it 's about more than just the number of jobs , it 's the quality of jobs , the skills that erm are offered in terms of the training that 's available in the area , and the whole atmosphere of the town has been completely transformed by moving from an older and established industrial climate to one that encompasses a wide range of modern and high tech industries .
3 The total so far this year is 53,000 — more than double the number during the same period in 1991 .
4 All told , it will more than double the number of computers in Californian schools .
5 A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) .
6 They comprise some 21 per cent of rural housing stock on average , and Shucksmith ( 1981 ) indicates that , during 1968–73 in England and Wales there were usually more than double the number of local authority houses being built per 1,000 population in urban than in rural districts .
7 The proposed development at Meadow House , though not associated with any community , would more than double the number of habitable dwellings in the immediate vicinity .
8 The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter .
9 Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 .
10 I should like , in particular , to explain that if , as he himself desires , the size of the Cabinet is to be restricted [ it had twenty members , more than twice the number in Churchill 's War Cabinet , which oscillated between five and nine ] , the Committee structure affords a useful means of preserving the collective responsibility of Ministers as a whole .
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