Example sentences of "more than [art] number " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 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 | Whatever the urgency , setting more than the number three jib and the mainsail would have been stupid . |
| 4 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 5 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 6 | Characters are permitted no more than the number of magic items shown on the chart below . |
| 7 | Only thirty-four had been to other secondary schools , scarcely more than the number from the second most popular public school , Harrow . |
| 8 | Not only did the North lose 1.3 million factory jobs in eleven years ( 31.6 per cent of employment in manufacturing and 63 per cent more than the number lost in the South ) but , as a result , the growth of other sectors and female employment was slower than in the South . |
| 9 | She was greatly overworked , with between 1,300 and 1,500 patients , several hundred more than the number of beds , and only fifty nurses . |
| 10 | Pancras in those stations ' heyday was considerably more than the number who use the combined stations today . |
| 11 | The same problem of interpretation arises from any use of manorial records , probably the best available documentary source ; these can tell us no more than the number of holdings which fell vacant on particular estates and throw no light on mortality among landless persons . |
| 12 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |