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Outnumbering the well-known faces are dozens of ordinary people given MBEs for their efforts in various fields.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2012

Outnumbering the man from Albtourist, the two newsmen occasionally split up and deliberately got lost to enjoy a few minutes on their own.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outnumbering their enemy by nearly four to one, they would overwhelm them.

From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert

Wide sweep the veteran myriads o'er the strand, Outnumbering thrice the raw colonial band; Flatbush and Harlem sink beneath their fires, Brave Stirling yields, and Sullivan retires.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Outnumbering the English, and united under leaders of their own race, the French and French half-breeds dwelt chiefly on the east bank of the Red River, south of Fort Garry.

From The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by Colquhoun, A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart)