OK so I was writing a sentence to explain that there are three holes at the same angular position on a wheel (different radii).  I started to write; 'there are more than one hole at each angular position...' But... it sounds wrong. Don't you agree? 'There is more than one hole...' sounds much better.  The construction 'there is' or 'there are' is used to indicate existence of a single thing or a plurality of things (countable nouns) respectively.  In this case, it seems that the thing that you are indicating the existence of is whatever 'more' is referring to, not the 'one'. Which is, in this case, two holes (on top of the first, three in total). So why does it sound so bad?  If there were two holes in total, then sure, 'there is more than one' would make sense, since the 'more' is one hole.  Is there some kind of special rule in English to say that we always say 'there is more than one' because there is at least one more?  Otherwise, why would we say 'there is' when referring to a plural, countable noun like in the above example?
While adding to an Answer to  question, I needed to use the above phrase, and I suddenly realised I was unsure whether to write "is" or "are".   There is more than one way to skin a cat. If there are more than one species of cat, we will flay each species differently.   I don't think that second example above sounds quite right to me (disregarding the meaning - sorry!), but in my original Answer I felt "is" would have been even worse.  Is "are" always wrong here? If so, what exactly is the rationale? If not, is there a case where it's unquestionably preferred – and why is that?    Note that in both the problematic Answer and my example attempting to mimic the same context more briefly, the writer doesn't know how many there are. There may be one, more, or even none.  Getting even more specific, the writer might have an opinion on how many there might be, and wish to convey his leanings by choice of verb form if language allows this to be done succinctly.
Title of short story: God granting immortality to others to find a way to kill himself Handle .bib in subfiles I have a problem very similar to the question being asked in  . My .bib is references in main.tex. When compiling main, everything works like a charm. Working on the subfiles, I have two issues though (which are most likely related):   I can't access the bib with auto-completion When compiling the subfile, it doesn't insert the citations.   I tried including  \bibliographystyle{plainnat} \bibliography{mybib}   in the subfiles, which also worked smoothly. Obviously, the bibs are included in every chapter of the document when compiling main.tex, then. I tried setting a global boolean in main.tex:  \newboolean{printBibInSubfiles} \setboolean{printBibInSubfiles}{false}    and in the subfiles:  \ifthenelse{\boolean{printBibInSubfiles}}    {}    {\bibliographystyle{plainnat}     \bibliography{../betterbib.bib}}    For some reason, then setting the boolean to false, the "bibliography"-header was printed in the subfiles as well as for the main file, but there was no output of citations under any of the "bibliography"-headers. Furthermore, compiling only the subfiles didn't work correctly.  My document structure is the following:  main.tex:  \begin[document] ... \subfile{sub/dataprocessing} ... \bibliographystyle{plainnat} \bibliography{mybib} \end{document}   the subfiles:  \documentclass[../main.tex]{subfiles} \begin{document} ... \cite{Random2014} ... \end{document}   After all this explanation: the only thing I want is to access the .bib from the subfiles without having to manually uncommenting something when compiling the main file. Any takers?  PS: Obviously, I also tried the solution provided in "" but couldn't get it to work. I don't know whether that would solve my problem anyway, since I don't have the \printbibliography-issue of the thread opener. According to Hubble's Law, how can the expansion of the Universe be accelerating? Scientists today think the expansion of the universe is accelerating.   According to Hubble's law, objects further away are moving faster than objects closer to us. The further away an object is, the further back in time we are seeing, so in the past objects moved faster (is this sentence correct?).  So because objects moved faster before than they do now, surely that's deceleration not acceleration?  my textbook says "if Scientists today think the rate of expansion of the Universe were decreasing then distant objects should appear different to Hubble's Law predictions: universe is accelerating. More distant objects would seem to be receding faster (since expansion was faster in the past)" Low rep users should be able to fix broken links At present a low rep user (under 2k) can only make an edit suggestion of more than 6 chars, however when someone has taken the time to find to correct link it is a real shame the correction can help other users!  So I think link fixing should be special cased somehow.  (Also the checkering of a changed link need to be better than other edits, so a page that showed what both the old a new links point to (in frames) could help with the approving processes.) From time to time, I need to typeset Welsh. Sometimes, I need to typeset citations and bibliographies in Welsh. I think that last time I did this, I may still have been using BibTeX although I am honestly not sure. In any case, my entire work-flow now uses biber and biblatex...  I found  on changing the names of things, including the names of things used by biblatex. However, that cannot deal with the case of an unsupported language.  Suppose that I want to typeset a document in Welsh:  \documentclass[a4paper,welsh]{article}  \usepackage{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}% welsh needs utf8x but biblatex doesn't like it \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}% not great for Welsh but the best pdfTeX can do \usepackage{csquotes}% doesn't like Welsh though biblatex likes csquotes on account of babel... \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} \bibliography{biblatex-examples}  \title{Fy Nogfen} \author{Rhywun}  \begin{document}   \maketitle   \tableofcontents   \section{Cyntaf}   \autocite{westfahl:space}    \printbibliography  \end{document}   There are multiple problems in such a case. (One is that I need utf8x but can't use it on account of biblatex. Another is that I need utf8x at all. Another is that biblatex likes csquotes but csquotes doesn't do Welsh. But these are irrelevant to this question.)  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