The phrase "outnumbered by a factor of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing quantities or comparisons, particularly in contexts involving statistics or ratios.
Example: "In the recent survey, the number of participants favoring option A was outnumbered by a factor of three compared to those favoring option B."
Alternatives: "surpassed by a ratio of" or "exceeded by a multiple of."
Regardless, the 27th Brigade had ultimately prevailed despite being outnumbered by a factor of five to one.
The Ottoman armies were under strength, overstretched, "haemorrhaging" deserters, suffering greatly from strained lines of communication, and were overwhelmingly outnumbered by a factor of two to one, by the EEF.
And Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, a paleodemographer with the French national research agency CNRS in Paris, agrees with the authors that their three proxies for population can be treated as independent variables and thus multiplied together; but even if they are only added together, Bocquet-Appel says, moderns would still have outnumbered Neandertals by a factor of more than five.
Britons made fifty-six million visits abroad last year, about the same number made by Americans, who outnumber them by a factor of five.
In museums with operating budgets of up to $250,000, women directors outnumber men by a factor of two to one.
"It is absurd to believe that we could ever claim victory in a war against organisms that outnumber us by a factor of 1022, that outweigh us by a factor of 108, that have existed for a thousand times longer than our species, and that can undergo as many as five hundred thousand generations during one of our generations," several scientists argued in a recent paper.
If virtualization can work for servers, why not for desktop computers, which outnumber servers by a factor of a hundred?
We should also note that over the past month, call open interest in Watson Pharmaceuticals has swelled some 77%, and call positions now outnumber puts by a factor of 2.6.
When they did so, the team concluded that modern humans came to outnumber Neandertals by a factor of nine or 10 ."These data imply that numerical supremacy alone must have been a powerful if not overwhelming factor" that allowed moderns to outcompete Neandertals, the team writes.
However, we speculated that since the afferent neurons outnumber neuromasts by a factor of two, more than one neuron could innervate each neuromast.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.01579 Image The Hawaiian bobtail squid houses bioluminescent bacteria in its own body (Credit: Jamie Foster) All animals live with microbes on and inside their bodies within humans, microbes can outnumber cells by a factor of ten and animals engage with these microbes via the mutual exchange of different molecules.
