Example sentences of "[num] rather [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 2 | If my hon. Friend will look at the recommendations already coming from the Boundary Commission , she will see that it recommends that there should be eight rather than seven seats in Dorset . |
| 3 | However , I should like to go further and suggest that the minimum term of appointment of the governors of the institution should be eight rather than five years , to ensure that it goes way beyond the electoral cycle of any member state . |
| 4 | Secondly , the issue of eight rather than ten miles . |
| 5 | Probably five eight rather than cos yeah I erm okay see erm right right right erm , so the thing that I would be looking for , if I could find this , would be what 's doing the colouring and how , how does that work ? |
| 6 | The first figure for section eleven should be three , three eight rather than three , three four and the two totals at the bottom of paragraph six should read three , one , O , eight and two , nine , three , zero . |
| 7 | Why did Euro Tunnel price its ‘ units ’ ( each unit consists of a share and warrant in both Euro Tunnel PLC and Euro Tunnel SA ) at 3.50 rather than 2 or 4 or any other price ? |
| 8 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 9 | These projects included a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ( the Charles de Gaulle , which was to be commissioned in 1998 rather than 1996 ) , an additional ballistic-missile submarine , a new model tank , and Rafale , a planned new fighter aircraft [ see pp. 36106 ; 36430 ] . |
| 10 | Since the enactment of s 459 1985 , it has been regarded as a better remedy for a minority affected by prejudice in a company to ask for a share purchase order under s 461 rather than to seek a return of share capital through a winding-up petition which results in the liquidation of a solvent company ( a member can not petition under s 122(1) ( g ) if the company is insolvent because he has no interest ) . |
| 11 | The ‘ definitive ’ John Barnard Ferrari will make its debut at the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours in June 1993 rather than at the start of 1994 as originally scheduled . |
| 12 | He wrote himself a cheque for one hundred and sixty pounds which left ten in the account , and took the money in tens rather than twenties ; it looked bulkier , more reassuring . |
| 13 | If he is arming , you must do likewise to avoid your worst outcome ( to get 2 rather than 1 ) . |
| 14 | Translation function calculations for each of the five cross-rotation function solutions using the program TFSGEN ( SERC , Daresbury , UK ) and data between 48Å and 3.1Å resulted in strong peaks ( 14.1–17.9 op — it ; s ) and indicated space group P 4 3 2 1 2 rather than P4 1 2 1 2 . |
| 15 | Price is directly related to size , and comparisons should always be made by the m 2 rather than simply between individual rugs . |
| 16 | Hence the owner also would find it worthwhile acceding to contract 2 rather than contract 1 . |
| 17 | These latter values lie close to -70° as shown in table 2 rather than around -100° as found in oligomer crystals and by the modelling we have carried out . |
| 18 | Again , the extra impedance , being of the kind Z 2 rather than Z 1 , has to be provided by extra components . |
| 19 | Or we might compare the way Philip II kept Phokis intact in 346 rather than make a present of it to Thebes . |
| 20 | The Twickenham authorities are predicting a virtual sell-out , but the fact that Lancashire tickets sold are numbered in hundreds rather than thousands suggests that without Trelawny 's Army , the county final would be a mere speck on the rugby programme . |
| 21 | Compared with this , uranium reserves are accepted by the nuclear industry itself to have a lifetime measured in hundreds rather than thousands of years . |
| 22 | But this is a problem which can be lived with because mutations in a test-tube population come in hundreds rather than thousands of billions . |
| 23 | This is an extreme example , and most tracks come in the hundreds rather than thousands . |
| 24 | Technology chairman Derek Lewis expects sales in the hundreds rather than thousands in the first year , but is aiming for between 5% and 10% of the UK Unix market thereafter . |
| 25 | The company 's planned highly parallel vector machine will consist of an array of proprietary vector processors , each the size of a large briefcase and each delivering GFLOPS performance , to get TFLOPS performance out of hundreds rather than thousands of processors . |
| 26 | According to Computer Reseller News , the new generation machines will be highly parallel systems using hundreds rather than thousands of processors in massively parallel configurations . |
| 27 | Something like these mechanisms must explain how the brain can compute results about distorted contextually determined patterns so fast on the basis of cells which perform hundreds rather than millions of operations per second . |
| 28 | These days they can cost hundreds rather than thousands of pounds , and drug rings are known to be using them . |
| 29 | Note that , for historical reasons , the four bands of the Landsat 1–3 MSS are numbered 4 , 5 , 6 and 7 rather than 1–4 . |
| 30 | A war boar rider therefore receives an extra bonus onto his save roll , +2 rather than +1 for other cavalry mounts such as horses and wolves . |