Outnumber Sentence Examples

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  • They outnumber the whites by 9 to 1.

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  • The first savings bank was organized in 1873, and state banks now outnumber national banks.

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  • The females outnumber the males by about 20,000, which is, however, about the number of adult males away from the country at any given period.

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  • The new objects probably far outnumber both their cousins.

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  • For us in Fulcrum, why are the ' gender balanced ' colleges Westcott, Queens and Cranmer when evangelical ordinands outnumber the rest?

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  • In 61% of the samples there are barley grains and no rachis and in a further 31% barley grains outnumber rachis.

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  • The periphrastic superlatives also greatly outnumber the inflectional superlatives from the Late Middle English period onwards.

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  • For this reason, and because the innocent look-alikes so overwhelmingly outnumber hobo spiders, it is safe to assume that most hobo spider sitings are, in fact, harmless grass spiders.

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  • Honest lenders far outnumber predatory lenders, but iall lenders who must follow the new rules.

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  • While men outnumber women by about eight to one, those odds are not bad enough to keep men from trying (or, as they call it, "next-ing") over and over again.

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  • Women are also at an advantage on the site, where the men outnumber them three to one.

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  • That makes it worthwhile to enter contests with entry fees, which outnumber free competitions.

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  • Women runners outnumber men, yet the Asics website reports that overall, more athletic shoes are designed with men in mind.

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  • Even in an economy where open jobs outnumber the applicants, job seeking can be a stressful and long process.

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  • In 1890, 69% of the farms were worked by the owners or their managers, in 1900 only 66.4%; but share tenants outnumber cash tenants by almost three to one.

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  • As the numbers of known stars of the two types are nearly equal, it is clear that, at all events in our immediate neighbourhood, the solar stars must greatly outnumber the Sirian.

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  • Kris.s Immortals appeared to outnumber the demons two to one for now, and Katie would call for him if she needed help.

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  • Mainly owing to the large element of transient foreign whites without families (long characteristic of Cuba), males outnumber females - in 1907 as 21 to 19.

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  • Among the foreigners males greatly outnumber females; even in the case of the German settlers the proportion is two to one.

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  • Most remarkable of all, the Roman Catholic churches, in this strong, hold of exiled Puritanism where Catholics were so long under the heavy ban of law, outnumber those of any single Protestant denomination; Irish Catholics dominate the politics of the city, and Protestants and Catholics have been aligned against each other on the question of the control of the public schools.

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  • The adherents of each of these churches outnumber their communicants in a ratio which is variously estimated.

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  • The mestizos (486,018) are less numerous than the Indians, but outnumber the whites by more than two to one.

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  • The Presbyterians and Protestant Episcopalians each outnumber the Roman Catholics in Belfast, and these three are the chief religious divisions.

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  • Subsequently another bishopric, St John's, Kaffraria, was created and the Cape Town diocesan raised to the rank of archbishop. Of other Protestant bodies the Methodists outnumber the Anglicans, eight-ninths of their members being coloured people.

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  • As the mortality amongst boys, especially during the first year, is considerably above that of the other sex, numerical equilibrium between the two is established in early youth, and in most cases girls outnumber boys, except for a few years between twelve and sixteen.

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