greater than ten in nimber/more than ten people

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navi tasan

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Which are correct:

1-Those who build this house were greater than ten in number.
2-More than ten people built this house.
3-There were more than ten people who built this house.
4-There were more than ten people who participated in building this house.

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They are all correct grammatically, except #1 which needs to say "built."

#1 is not very natural. #2 is more wordy that it needs to be.
 

navi tasan

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Thank you very much SoothingDave.

Could 2 be less wordy? I don't see how. It is the shortest sentence of them all.

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Navi.
 
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