Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it need " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 2 | Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going . |
| 3 | Of course , with this strategy being market-oriented , it is possible that one firm could purchase more pollution permits than it needed , with the intention of keeping out competitors , and the market would cease to function . |
| 4 | If you give it more insects than it needs , what does it do with these extra insects ? |
| 5 | Many of them are being forced to turn the crop into cattle feed because Britain has more potatos than it needs . |
| 6 | Under co-founder Steve Hui , Fremont-based Everex Systems Inc , now trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , spent millions of dollars trying to produce clones of Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh and Sun Microsystems Inc workstations and an expensive computerised drafting table without ever getting them to market , according to United Press International ; former managers have also complained anonymously that Everex management frequently ordered more components than it needed in order to get lower prices , the wire service says . |