Example sentences of "than [art] number [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 2 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , wage costs , maintenance bills and interest charges grew more rapidly than the number of passengers . |
| 4 | But with four nuclear powers , six pairs could quarrel , while five powers provided ten possible pairs and so on , the likelihood of war increasing faster than the number of nuclear players . |
| 5 | It was rumoured that the number of staff who had responded was considerably smaller than the number of participants in the strike claimed by the AUT . |
| 6 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 7 | In two constituencies , Vale of Glamorgan and Bristol North West , the Tory majority was less than the number of expat voters . |
| 8 | The Tory , David Harris , held the seat by a mere 1,645 votes — less than the number of postal and proxy votes ( 3,355 ) . |
| 9 | In the twentieth century official statistics showed the number of cattle rising at a slower rate than the number of people . |
| 10 | Their calculations came up with the number of a thousand trillion trillion times atmospheric , 1027 , a number larger than the number of atoms in your body . |
| 11 | However , a change to the government road tax guidelines , which were now based on horsepower rather than the number of wheels , made the cost of vehicle registration prohibitive . |
| 12 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 13 | The gradual replacement on ocean routes of sail by steam increased the volume of traffic faster than the number of ships ; steamships could make more journeys in the same time . |
| 14 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 15 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 16 | The fourteen Area Boards themselves had to devolve some functions further and they initially set up about 500 local districts ( slightly fewer than the number of pre-nationalisation undertakings ) . |
| 17 | The number of TC-LC that adhered to KC was 10-fold greater than the number of TE-LC that bound , implying a role for cadherins in LC-KC interactions . |
| 18 | This was fewer than the number of people looking at a daily newspaper . |
| 19 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the number of different sounds ( phonemes ) used in English speech is greater than the number of letters used in handwriting , adding further complexity to the recognition of speech . |
| 21 | To do so , however , the conversion rate had to be given to the pupils in a more convenient form than the number of foreign money units to the pound and pupils did not necessarily learn to apply the arithmetic algorithm to conversions . |
| 22 | Only sixteen Unionist MPs were baronets ( less than the number of Liberals , a testament to the eight years of Liberal government ) , and these were the owners of new wealth rather than old titles . |
| 23 | ( The surplus could be greater than the number of transferable votes — if , for example , a large proportion of the votes were non-transferable . |
| 24 | The process is one of iteration with a submatrix of p vectors , where p is a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought , and involves the solution at each step of an eigenproblem of order p only . |
| 25 | It is for this reason that we choose p to be a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought . |
| 26 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 27 | The number of dwellings in Great Britain in 1981 was 21.2 million , considerably greater than the number of households , estimated as 19.5 million ( Social Trends 17 , 1987 , Table 2.2 ; Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , 1987 , Table 9 ) . |
| 28 | As twenty-three birthdays spread at random over 365 addresses can cause duplication , it is not surprising that no randomizing algorithm can avoid synonyms when packing thousands of records into a set of addresses that is only 10–20 per cent greater than the number of records ! |
| 29 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 30 | Clearly the labour mobility programmes have transferred fewer workers than the number of jobs created by regional policies . |