| 1 | The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages in this case. | |
| 2 | Last year there were many more births than deaths. | |
| 3 | It is axiomatic (to say) that a whole is greater than any of its parts. | |
| 4 | I was taught that two sides of a triangle were greater than the third. | |
| 5 | As we have just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. |