Example sentences of "than [art] [adj] number " 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 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 4 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher |
| 5 | Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By 1983 almost all the major areas of the Polytechnic were represented in the modular programme , and the number of students on the modular programme was by now greater than the total numbers of students in some colleges . |
| 11 | This shows the importance of timing of births in year-to-year marital fertility change rather than the final number . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The budgeting system then becomes capable of reflecting the complexity of cases handled , rather than the simple numbers of patients treated . |
| 14 | Goodchild ( 1978 ) suggests that the number of derived polygons is more a function of boundary complexity than the actual number of polygons . |
| 15 | What is most important is how classes are taught and how a school manages its teaching staff , rather than the actual number employed or the number of pupils per class . |
| 16 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The manner of his death ensured that more than the usual number of people were at the funeral . |
| 19 | All the competitors agreed that they had a challenging game and more than the usual number of wet balls and soggy bunkers ! ! |
| 20 | Five cases of the rare tumour retinoblastoma had been found in these children , 20 times more than the usual number . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This again failed to recognise that criminal advocacy is a particular skill and , on the economic level , militated against the large-practice firms which were able to field more criminally experienced lawyers than the maximum number : |
| 24 | The order of the B-tree is said to be one more than the maximum number of keys per index block . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | Any particular finite extension is simply an idea in our minds , and can not have more parts than the finite number we perceive it to have . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Manager , with the ache he had in his hand from welcoming people , realised that much more than the invited number had arrived . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |