English example sentences with "greater"

Learn how to use greater in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

The sooner you give up, the greater the benefits.

As a rule, the more fundamental a new truth, the greater will be its practical possibilities.

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

The population of London is much greater than that of any other British city.

Mozart was greater than any other composer of his time.

Television has the advantage of providing sports fans with greater convenience.

It revived with even greater vigor.

The city revived with greater vigor.

The greater part of the money was spent.

Their influence becomes greater every day, but they are uncreative and can't make value judgements.

These goods are greater in quantity than in quality.

The area of Canada is greater than that of the United States.

Also, there is a greater risk of accidents.

The chances of success are greater if the business man knows the ropes, and also has more funds at his disposal.

You shall see greater things than that.

I'll give you our answer after we go into your proposal in greater detail.

The seals surface more frequently then, so a bear's chance of catching one at a breathing hole is greater after nightfall.

The speed of light is much greater than that of sound.

What greater misfortune is there than to go blind?

It is out of the question for me to built a new house till my income becomes greater.

The higher you climb, the greater the fall.

Men's wants become greater in proportion to the increase in their income.

The more we have, the greater our desire will be.

The more skills one masters, the greater contribution one can make to society.

The greater part of the guests were foreigners.

The population of Tokyo is greater than that of London.

No pleasure is greater than that of reading.

In Japan women assume the greater load of responsibility for childcare.

Japan is expected to play a greater role in international society.

The distance he ran was much greater than had been expected.

He saves the greater part of his salary with a view to buying a car.

He lost the greater part of his fortune in speculation.

His strength is much greater than that of an ordinary man.

Nothing gave her greater pleasure than to watch her son growing up.

Her knowledge of French is greater than mine.

The greater the genius, the longer it takes the world to find it out and understand it.

The speed of an airplane is much greater than that of a helicopter.

Maternal love is greater than anything else.

Respect is greater from a distance.

Accordingly, besides noun declension patterns, there also existed a greater variety of verb conjugation patterns than in Modern English.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

The obedience of everyone to rules, even absurd ones, promotes a greater cohesion within society.

An integer is natural iff it is greater than or equal to 0.

An integer is natural if and only if it is greater or equal to 0.

In Japan, there isn't any lake greater than Lake Biwa.

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Plato is a friend, but the truth is a greater friend.

The amount of people on Facebook is greater than the population of the United States of America.

The worth of friendship is greater than gold.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged.

I ate a greater burdock tempura.

At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women.

At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women.

Nothing makes us greater than a great suffering.

There is no greater insult to life than premature ejaculation.

Families want to educate their children and can, in principle, defray the costs with the greater incomes that education generates.

Greater demand for high-quality coffee has helped drive coffee prices higher.

But that your fear of me was greater than his life, now I bless you and your offspring, just so that they multiply like the stars in the heavens and just as grains of sand on the sea.

Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Our friendship is greater than our quarrels.

An increasingly greater part of the population is not capable of fully utilizing the power of expression of the German language.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

The chances of dying from falling airplane parts are 30 times greater than the chances of being killed by a shark.

The less I study, the greater my chance of failure.

We have added greater 64-bit server support.

In the name of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Claudio Soarez Rocha expressed admiration for the continuing effort which Esperanto-speaking people throughout the world are always making, for the greater spread of Esperanto. He wrote, amongst other things,"We know that in the history of mankind, there have been languages that have become intrusive as a result of political power, such as Latin, or to a certain extent French and lately, English. We very much wish, in fact, that one day Esperanto could be accepted by the majority of the nations, as a language adopted to facilitate communication without linguistic privileges."

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.

"Top-down economics never works," said Obama. "The country does not succeed when just those at the very top are doing well. We succeed when the middle class gets bigger, when it feels greater security."

Nothing would give me greater pleasure.

The number of people on Facebook is greater than the population of the United States.

The difference between the two types of "yes" may be greater than between "yes" and "no".

How small is a differential? What's the smallest number greater than zero? What's twice that number?

The police intervention in the early morning of November 1st was precisely one of the points that greater stains have spilt over the municipal actions in the political investigation of the tragedy.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

You are fighting greater forces!

Mother and motherland are greater than heaven.

It's for the greater good.

They moved house in search of greater comfort and security.

Pinocchio was greatly afraid of thunder and lightning, but the hunger he felt was far greater than his fear.

The number of Christians is greater than the number of Mohammedans.

The animal cell has a greater percentage of proteins than the plant cell.

The time has come when I will make myself more manifest in the church, through increasingly greater signs.

My god is greater!

">" means greater than.

The earthquake caused a catastrophe greater than any the country had ever known.

There is no greater mystery in life than love.

Scotland has been agitating for centuries to achieve greater autonomy from the British central government in London.

The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Seems like every problem we manage to solve requires a greater genius to correct the damage the solution had caused.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

All families are, to a greater or lesser extent, dysfunctional.

The sooner you give up smoking, the greater the benefits.

Such abundance I accept apparent in this country, such top moral values, humans of such caliber, that I do not anticipate we would anytime beat this country, unless we breach the actual courage of this nation, which is her airy and cultural heritage, and, therefore, I adduce that we alter her old and age-old apprenticeship system, her culture, for if the Indians anticipate that all that is adopted and English is acceptable and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their built-in self-culture and they will become what we ambition them, an absolutely bedevilled nation.

Your chances of dying while filling out your lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.

Average U.S. precipitation has increased since 1900, but some areas have had increases greater than the national average, and some areas have had decreases.

I do believe it's for the greater good.

"I can give her no greater power than she has already," said the woman; "don't you see how strong that is?"

She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

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