greater number
Example Sentences
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Statistics Canada notes that for the third consecutive month a greater number of Canadian residents returned from overseas by air than from the U.S. by auto.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Patients with more severe illness had a greater number of these clusters, while healthy donor lungs showed none.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
"This created an even greater number of Colombian soldiers who, two decades later, are beginning to retire without a sufficient source of income," a retired military officer turned academic told BBC Mundo.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2025
Rose added that a far greater number of average sports fans are betting on prediction markets than sportsbook businesses looking to hedge financial positions.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025
She had never known her father, which put her in the company of the greater number of everyone I’d known.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
