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Example sentences for "larger number"

  • While the traffic remains the same, the proceeds must then be divided among a larger number of carriers.

  • With a population less than one-fifth as large as that of Europe this country has a larger number of miles of railroad than that continent.

  • They have been enabled to give employment to a larger number of men, and there has been no occasion for them to carry out the dishonest threat to decrease the wages of their employes.

  • In the early Visitations we get instances of six, eight, and even a larger number, and the start once being made, and the number of four relinquished, there was of course no reason why it should not be extended indefinitely.

  • Increasing the speed of a machine is a capital-liberating operation, since it enables a certain number of machines to do the work of a larger number.

  • We discard many things when they have somewhat deteriorated, and this forces us to buy, in a term of years, a larger number of them than we should otherwise do.

  • I hold this because it enables a large number of people to buy and enjoy the use of a car and because it gives a larger number of men employment at good wages.

  • This enables a larger number of people to buy and it gives a larger number of men employment at good wages.

  • This young man conquered more nations, ruled over a wider territory and a larger number of people submitted to his authority than to any other man who ever lived, before or since.

  • There is no reason to think that under the conditions then existing the country could have supported a larger number.

  • Whether it will be believed by a larger number of persons a hundred years hence than to-day depends, I suppose, on whether the nation will be in a more healthy condition than it is now.

  • Such well-endowed pairs would commonly rear a larger number of offspring than the less favored.

  • But are these offspring any better than they would have been had their parents given birth to a larger number?

  • His object was to bring a larger number of his own ships against a smaller number of the enemy's.

  • What he wanted was to bring to the point of impact, when the fight began, a larger number of ships than were to be found in that part of the enemy's line.

  • The mortality from that cause is known to have been excessive in Norwich, Blandford, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, which may be taken as samples of a larger number of epidemics in the same years.

  • Comparatively few of those who were attacked by it in the country places came to the Strabane Dispensary; but the dropsy which often attended or followed it brought in a larger number.

  • The epidemic was very virulent, going through families; many lost two children, some a larger number; many adults fell victims to it who were supposed to die of common fever.

  • Latin alone may be said to equal, or surpass English in concentration, because, although Latin words are longer on the average, by their greater inflection they cover a larger number of English words.

  • Many of them are very skilful in wood-carving, and it is probably largely owing to this circumstance that they make a larger number of images in human form.

  • It should, however, be observed that in some of the above cases, in which the crossed seeds were the heaviest, as with Sarothamnus and Cyclamen, the crossed capsules contained a larger number of seeds.

  • Moreover, a larger number of the crossed than of the self-fertilised plants grew to a moderate height.

  • When they descended into the plain, a larger number, who had submitted on the approach of the soldiery, would unite with them and form a considerable army.

  • The undisciplined crowd fled before the well-directed fire of the defenders, and left several men dead and a larger number wounded on the field.

  • Finding itself balked for the time of its expected prey, the parliament resolved to avenge the slight put upon its authority, by compassing the ruin of a larger number of victims.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beautiful world; close attention; color from; disinterested benevolence; follow them; great joy; larger amount; larger force; larger growth; larger measure; larger portion; larger proportion; larger quantities; larger quantity; larger scale; larger share; larger size; orange flower; revolt from; short rest; single idea; slight depression; social order; social reform; thirty dollars; young couple