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greater number

noun as in majority

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Wilson questioned why a low-level fentanyl dealer should serve a 12-year sentence when there are many high-level dealers, who are likely responsible for a greater number of deaths, whom the U.S. attorney’s office does not pursue.

Perhaps it should be obvious that if more people get more infections because measles has caused their immune systems to lose their memory of the pathogens they need to fight, some proportion of that greater number of people will eventually get really sick.

From Salon

A few months ago, Ukraine was hoping that the supply of additional air defences -especially the US-made Patriot missile defence system - would enable it to extend protection to a greater number of potential targets, including cities and power stations across the country.

From BBC

Iman Atta, the charity's director, called for coordinated action by the government and said: "As anti-Muslim hate continues to be felt by a greater number of British Muslims, both at a street and online level, our work and support for victims of anti-Muslim hate is needed now more than ever."

From BBC

Was one email address really going to handle the complaints of 2.4 million federal employees reporting on their colleagues, not to mention an equal or greater number of fake reports?

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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